“For the critic, thus, literature or art occupy the same secondary position as nature for the writer or painter. Their function is not to serve… Read More »The Role of the Critic

“If I am a man of some reading, I am a man of no retentiveness” – Montaigne (Quoted in How to Talk about Books You… Read More »Transient Knowledge

“Even a prodigious reader never has access to more than an infinitesimal fraction of the books that exist.” – Pierre Bayard, How to Talk about… Read More »Limitations of Reading

“Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need.” – Fight Club (1999 Film)

“Don’t repeat yourself.” – Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas, The Pragmatic Programmer

“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat… Read More »Choices and Sacrifices

“It’s impossible to learn to plow by reading books” – “Old Russian Proverb” via Richard Linklater, It’s Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books

“Give me the same thing… only different!” – Blake Snyder, Save The Cat!

“Computers are useless — all they can give you are answers” – Pablo Picasso (Quoted in Art & Fear)

“The poem in the head is always perfect. Resistance begins when you try to convert it to language” – Stanley Kunitz (Quoted in Art &… Read More »Perfection of Poetry