In matters of opinion, the choices are anodyne or wrong; punditry is the art of combining them.
Mar 132020
Writing
If it had been your exact thought you would have used my exact words.
Mar 022020
Writing carries the small but ever-present danger of being understood.
Feb 282020
The good reader blames himself first for obscurity, and to punish this habit with nonsense is worse than bad writing: it is depraved conduct.
Feb 212020
Aphorism: A blank page spoiled.
Feb 072020
The price of writing for one audience is the others.
Jan 222020
The critic’s indispensable service is not to praise greatness, which makes its own way in the world, but to refrain from praising mediocrity, which requires his assistance.
Jan 202020
All authors dream of a posthumous reputation, none of posthumous sales.
Nov 282019
It is more common to talk well than to listen well, and to write well than to read well.
Oct 312019
Journalism is the first draft of history, shortly to reside with all other first drafts.
Oct 282019
Academic press: Books that no one will read at prices that no one will pay.