“If God lived on Earth, people would break his windows.”–Yiddish Proverb

“In the life cycle of a theory, it starts off simple and then gets fancier and fancier, as brainy thinkers mount objections and the theory’s proponents develop more subtle, complex, and well-defended theory to stave them off. Then it dies. Actually, before it dies, it lives in a special preserve for theories too complicated to … More Quote of the Day

“You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.”–Jodi Picoult

He fashioned an altar And placed upon it a fantasy To which he sacrificed his reality And traded his carnality For the celibacy of expectation

“We’re the most aggressively inarticulate generation to come along since, you know, a long time ago!” ― Taylor Mali

“A physicist friend of mine once said that in facing death, he drew some consolation from the reflection that he would never again have to look up the word ‘hermeneutic’ in the dictionary.”–Steven Weinberg

“If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.”–George Orwell

“If you do not have the possibility of abandoning your religion, you do not enjoy the possibility of freely embracing it, either.” ― Paul Berman

“The dominant theories of elite art and criticism in the 20th century grew out of a militant denial of human nature. One legacy is ugly, baffling, and insulting art. The other is pretentious and unintelligible scholarship. And they’re surprised that people are staying away in droves?” ― Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial … More Quote of the Day

Well, actually two quotes: “We can clearly see that there is no bi-univocal correspondence between linear signifying links or archi-writing, depending on the author, and this multireferential, multi-dimensional machinic catalysis. The symmetry of scale, the transversality, the pathic non-discursive character of their expansion: all these dimensions remove us from the logic of the excluded middle … More Quote of the Day