Aphorism comes less from finding wisdom than losing patience.
Dec 302015
Writing
If it had been your exact thought you would have used my exact words.
Dec 242015
Paying authors by the word is like paying programmers by the line.
Dec 182015
All authors suspect, while they have no readers, that they are worthless. Then they acquire a few, and become convinced.
Dec 082015
A solitary aphorism can be perfect; a collection of them can only be intolerable.
Oct 152015
Cynics don’t write. To print one’s words, expecting others to heed or even read them, is an act of preposterous faith in human nature.
Sep 232015
I ask one thing of literature: that it draw blood.
Jun 232015
Writing is hard. Writing about how hard writing is is somewhat easier.
Jun 182015
To see one’s thought summarized aptly and briefly is the rare experience that is flattering and humiliating in equal measure.
Jun 052015
The satirist’s punishment is praise from his intended victims.
May 282015
An aphorism requires assembly without instructions.