Sublime

It isn’t so much that geniuses make it look easy; it’s that they make it look fast.

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

I don’t love writing; I love having a problem I believe I might someday write my way out of.

the cover design for Robert Louis Stevenson’s An Apology for Idlers is, very satisfyingly, half finished:

Whatever was not problematical and suspected about this young man – for example, a certain showiness as to foreign ideas, and a disposition to unsettle what had been settled and forgotten by his elders – was positively unwelcome to a physician whose standing had been fixed thirty years before by a treatise on Meningitis, of which at least one copy