If you would be thrilled by watching the galloping advance of a major glacier, you'd be ecstatic watching changes in publishing.

It's no good telling somebody they're trying too hard. It's very much like ordering a child to go stand in a corner for a half hour and never once think about elephants.

If the cards are stacked against you, reshuffle the deck.

People cannot endure inexplicable worthlessness

Night and gin and music-the right setting for peeling off the thin clinging layers of bullshit and finding one's way down closer to the essential self.

...it isn't foolish or wicked to enjoy. Wickedness is hurting people on purpose. I love what you are and who you are and how you are. You give me great joy. And you make horrible coffee.

If you would be thrilled by watching the galloping advance of a major glacier, you'd be ecstatic watching changes in publishing.