List, and the world lists with you; abstract, and you abstract alone.
Jun 242016
List, and the world lists with you; abstract, and you abstract alone.
Your most reliable and attentive readers are the people who hate you.
You can talk a man out of an idea he is happy with only by making him unhappy with it.
To make, not the case that convinces me, but the one that I think will convince you, is not bad faith but good manners.
The truth shall set you on anyone who will listen.
It is not easy for a woman to win an author’s heart; she has to read his books.
At least you can deal with the devil; God just pushes everyone around.
Celebrated mediocrity augurs obscure excellence.
When in doubt, cut the dream sequence.
Apprenticeship, mastery, eminence, death.