The desire for respectability is the censor’s natural ally.
Dec 092020
Writing
If it had been your exact thought you would have used my exact words.
Oct 072020
Great literature inspires us to read; bad but celebrated literature inspires us to write.
Sep 232020
Anybody can equivocate; ambiguity takes talent.
Sep 012020
The soul of brevity is silence.
Aug 102020
We read, and imagine we can write; and write, and imagine we can think.
Aug 042020
You need not be anonymous as long as no one stupid can understand you.
Jun 122020
At fifty everyone has the prose style he deserves.
Jun 012020
Clear, brief, precise — choose two.
May 262020
In good prose lies sound unnatural.
Apr 212020
If journalism is the first draft of history, we know how far to trust history.