Twitterables
Courtesy of Joseph Epstein
If the same progress as had been made in education were made in the culinary arts, we should today still be eating soup with our hands.
The physicist Wolfgang Pauli used to respond to the inadequate answers of his less than brilliant students by saying, “That isn't even wrong!”
Sigmund Freud–whose thought Vladimir Nabokov once characterized as no more than private parts covered up by Greek myths.
How fine it was to read, as I not long ago did in a biography of Martin Luther King, Jr., that King, too, greatly distrusted Jesse Jackson.
Neighborhood taverns–the workingman's country clubs–are largely gone.
