We laugh at novels in which the weather tracks the moods of the characters, yet our own moods mostly track the weather.
Apr 012013
Reading
The dead alive and busy.
—Vaughan
Mar 272013
Code is poetry, which says nothing about code, but poetry is also code, which says a lot about poetry.
Mar 132013
Reading an author’s work for his life is like digging up a garden for manure.
Feb 282013
Read to remember, write to forget.
Jan 082013
It takes half a lifetime to learn to read slowly.
Dec 282012
Cows chew cud, people read newspapers.
Dec 272012
In hell you are forced to reread continuously all the books you loved when you were twenty.
Dec 192012
Everyone who used to read is now too busy writing.
Dec 122012
The reliable narrator is a literary convention.
Nov 272012
Asking a native to recommend a translation is like asking a local to recommend a hotel.