It is a great honor for a book to be burned.
Jul 152019
Reading
The dead alive and busy.
—Vaughan
Feb 282019
The Two Kinds of Useful Books
1. Technical, scientific, mathematical
2. Hurts your feelings
Oct 152018
If you’re going to read only one book on a subject, don’t bother.
Jun 072018
The first rung on the ladder of literacy is pedantry, or as we now say, fact-checking.
May 022018
A lifetime of reading novels will teach you how to feel superior to a world in which you are no use.
Mar 272018
There is nothing too profound for the right interpreter to grind into banality.
Mar 212018
Many books are good for no one, but no books are good for everyone.
Mar 062018
The writer proposes: the reader disposes.
Sep 292017
Universal literacy guarantees an imbecile press.
Sep 212017
Influential books usually have a few readers, who usually have a great many.