87 quotes
What I’m not changes more than what I am.
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
Beware of knowing your virtues; you may lose them. Beware of knowing your vices; you may forgive them.
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
First he gathered what he needed. Then he needed to keep gathering what he used to need.
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
To think yourself incapable of crime is one failure of the imagination. To think yourself capable of all crimes is another.
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
To know, you just have to know. To believe, you have to make others believe.
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
Patience is not very different from courage. It just takes longer.
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
Judging itself brings the pain of being judged. The wicked judge mistakes this for another crime of the accused and lengthens his sentence.
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
That others know: science. That others choose: politics.
Interglacial (2004)
Embarrassment is the greatest teacher, but since its lessons are exactly those we have tried hardest to conceal from ourselves, it may teach us, also, to perfect our self-deception.
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
How often feelings are circular. How embarrassing to be embarrassed. How annoying to be annoyed.
Interglacial (2004)
Think of all the smart people made stupid by flaws of character. The finest watch isn’t fine long when used as a hammer.
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
A strange gratitude for those I disagree with. They keep me from having to take too seriously the moments when I disagree with myself.
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
What’s thinking? You live in a grandly appointed house, but spend all your time rummaging around in the attic for any little trinket you hadn’t known was there.
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
He Thought Positively till he became a euphemism for himself.
Interglacial (2004)
I aspire to know when best to walk or eat, which music I need, and how to keep myself sitting as I am now, stubbornly enraptured with doing practically nothing.
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
Happiness is the readiness to be happy.
Interglacial (2004)
They say productivity is the key to confidence, and confidence … to productivity. And they’re happy walking back and forth between these two rooms, each the excuse for the other.
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
It’s amazing that I sit at my job all day and no one sees me clearly enough to say What is that boy doing behind a desk?
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
So many times I’ve made myself stupid with the fear of being outsmarted.
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
Water deepens where it has to wait.
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)