The stoic contemplates fallen leaves; the epicure rakes them into a loveseat.

We live in one of the few epochs of humanity where life isn't just a painful cycle of toil, fatigue, and collapse. Now pleasure gyrates us through those stages.

Artists are the serfs of a leisure society.

Political debate: when charlatans come together to discuss their principles.

Alphabet: a symbolic system used in algebra, with applications that have yet to be discovered by dyslexics and two thirds of college graduates.

I don’t read biographies for moral instruction, or for a history lesson. I want to know what people are saying about me.