300 Arguments

Is it a failure of my imagination that I’ve never been able to summon any genuine feeling about a sports team?

There are two kinds of people: those who can’t perform the act when they’re sad and those who perform it only to escape sadness. I have a theory that the second kind of person lives longer.

Every success story can be told as a series of failures.

Think of this as a short book composed entirely of what I hoped would be a long book’s quotable passages.

The first beautiful songs you hear tend to stay beautiful because better than beauty, which is everywhere, is the memory of first discovering beauty.

It’s easier to speak to a crowd, to stare into the spotlight, than it is to look into a human face.

Respect the one-hit wonder not for his one hit but for all the days he must have suffered afterward, trying for another.

Slowly, slowly, I accumulate sentences. I have no idea what I’m doing until suddenly it reveals itself, almost done.

I like writing that is unsummarizable, a kernel that cannot be condensed, that must be uttered exactly as it is.