Geoffrey Nunberg quotes:

Few people become assholes reluctantly.

The Italian historian Armando Petrucci has done more than anyone else to revive interest in public writing. His groundbreaking Public Lettering: Script, Power, and Culture surveys the forms and uses of epigraphic writing from classical antiquity to the twentieth century.

There are only two reasons for buying a book, after all. Either we intend to read it, in which case most of us find a printed version preferable, or we don't intend to read it, in which case a printed version is absolutely essential.

When the world changes, correlation goes away"¦ Causals are what endure.

When it comes to being slaves to fashion, American managers make adolescent girls look like rugged individualists.