Bored People, Unless They Sleep A Lot,

Moral Self-infatuation Has Its Own Corruptions, After All. With Time, Almost Every Other Principle Of The Magazine Acquired An Ironic Echo, A Sort Of Cackling Aftermath.

There Is A Difference, Of Course, Between Real Sentiment And The Trash Of Shared Experience.

If You Once Cede To The Court The Power To Decide Elections, Let Alone Even The Power To Halt Counting Of The Votes, Then You Have Ceded It Everything.

That 'writers Write' Is Meant To Be Self-evident. People Like To Say It. I Find It Is Hardly Ever True. Writers Drink. Writers Rant. Writers Phone. Writers Sleep. I Have Met Very Few Writers Who Write At All.

Hardly Anyone About Whom I Deeply Care At All Resembles Anyone Else I Have Ever Met, Or Heard Of, Or Read About In Literature.