Words&Dirt

“The hallmark of insecurity is bravado.”

––The Way of Kings, by Brandon Sanderson, loc. 3700

“How absurd we humans in fact are! How misapplied is our self-admiration––as we can readily see by observing other self-admiring humans! How richly just and healthful is self-ridicule! And yet how few of us are capable of it. I certainly find it hard. My own goof-ups seem to me to have received merciless publicity when my wife has found out about them.”

–– “A Few Words in Favor of Edward Abbey,” from What Are People For?, by Wendell Berry, pg. 43