I've always wondered if there was a Hezbollah version of minesweeper where you get points for blowing up on your first move.

- James Lileks

Genius flames and dies, but amiable competence can live forever.

- James Lileks

Modern death is a matter of bright rooms and hard machines. Live long enough, and you might be filed away in a nursing home, your history scoured awa…

- James Lileks

The (campaign) ads all have the same tone - the voice is hushed and amazed when talking about The Enemy, as if you should worry how this amoral, powe…

- James Lileks

A Children’s Museum, however, is more of a Funatorium. You are encouraged to touch things, which is poor training for subsequent museum visitation.

- James Lileks

I'll start drinking tea over coffee when the big hand is on Never and the little hand is on Ain't Gonna Happen.

- James Lileks

I don't believe in the very concept of "first thing in the morning." I'm a "third thing in the afternoon" fellow.

- James Lileks

All you need to know about Arafat was that he insisted on wearing a pistol when he addressed the UN General Assembly. And all you need to know about …

- James Lileks

The worst thing about depression isn't the sense that you're accentuating the negative, it's that you're seeing things the way they really are, strip…

- James Lileks