An aphorism requires assembly without instructions.
May 282015
Writing
If it had been your exact thought you would have used my exact words.
May 182015
One writes so as not to be interrupted.
May 142015
Brevity is admired: prolixity is paid.
May 122015
The great contemporary leveller of class distinctions is automated spell-checking.
Apr 092015
Imitation is the most sincere, but parody is the most flattering.
Apr 082015
I regret all of my exclamation points, most of my semicolons, half of my em-dashes, some of my question marks, and none of my periods.
Mar 272015
Reading, unless it’s for writing, is high-class idling.
Mar 112015
Elaboration annoys the clever without satisfying the dim.
Feb 202015
When you list four sources in a footnote, you have forty; when you list three, you have three.
Jan 122015
What we call realism in fiction is only a bit of reality-tinsel to decorate the old myths.