Fiction is like sugar — healthful when scarce, toxic in the great gobs in which we actually ingest it.
Nov 062012
Reading
The dead alive and busy.
—Vaughan
Oct 262012
The self-justifying utterances of murderers, thieves, cowards, blowhards, and madmen all enter the quote books under Shakespeare.
Oct 112012
When reading fiction, ask which of the villains you resemble.
Oct 082012
One reads so as not to believe everything one reads.