Print overawes the illiterate just as machinery overawes the savage.
May 062013
Writing
If it had been your exact thought you would have used my exact words.
Apr 292013
The author who displays his library is like the suspect who leads police to the scene of the crime.
Apr 222013
Surfeit: A group of poets.
Apr 172013
More is lost in translation from thought to page than from one language to another.
Mar 272013
Code is poetry, which says nothing about code, but poetry is also code, which says a lot about poetry.
Mar 202013
An excellent book could be written consisting entirely of synopses of books that ought to be written.
Mar 142013
Critics resent artists, but not half as much as artists resent critics.
Feb 282013
Read to remember, write to forget.
Feb 122013
Writing is good therapy, but therapy is bad writing.
Jan 292013
Any remark sufficiently clever will eventually be attributed to someone sufficiently famous.