Paul Will
Paul Will
forgiveness genius stones
With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.
objectivity ornaments saws
We hew and saw and plane facts to make them dovetail with our prejudices, so that they become mere ornaments with which to parade our objectivity.
tombstone life-and-death littles
Having read the inscriptions upon the tombstones of the great and little cemeteries, Wang Peng advised the Emperor to kill all the living and resurrect the dead.
necklaces nooses
Many a necklace becomes a noose.
transformation silent footnotes
History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.
quotation-marks theft bigs
Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks.
trials crime gallows
If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
jealousy passion love-is
Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.
voice thousand
A picture tells a thousand words. But you get a thousand pictures from someone's voice.
radio invisible listeners
Radio listeners are voyeurs: lurking, invisible, eavesdropping.
friendship eye garden
The object in America is to avoid contact, to treat all as foes unless they're known to be friends. Here you have a million crabs living in a million crevices. ... But the garden's greatest benefit, I feel, as not relief to the eyes, but to make the eyes sees our neighbors.
ethnicity class race
Television, I'm afraid, has isolated us more than race, class, or ethnicity.
delight
Intelligence is nothing without delight.
wine glasses champagne-drinking
Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of Champagne.