To portray competence in detail requires a genius; to portray genius in detail requires a god.
Oct 182022
Seeming
Religion, art, taste, and other delusions.
Oct 072022
A story of only exciting parts is like a wardrobe of only exciting garments.
Oct 052022
Criticism, even good criticism, helps you see what the critic describes and hinders you from seeing anything else.
Oct 032022
Even public relations suffers from science-envy: it is no accident that Relativity came between Barnum and Bernays.
Sep 202022
Only in the movies does it pour when it rains.
Sep 142022
Critics prefer drama to comedy because drama can be chewed over endlessly, and who wants to talk about why something’s funny?
Aug 302022
Public opinion is not what everyone believes, but what everyone believes everyone else believes.
Aug 122022
The mad genius is rarely either and never both.
Aug 092022
Most artists who are supposed to have perished of drink or drugs in fact simply bored themselves to death.
Jul 272022
Western man worships bluesmen the same way the ancient Egyptians worshipped cats.