Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.

There is virtue in virtuosity, especially today, when it protects us from the tedious spectacle of ineptitude.

Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre

Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.

No art goes unmediated by other art.

The point of a library's existence is not persuasion or evangelism, but knowledge. It is irrelevant to the good library whether, as an institution, it shares or promotes your core values or mine, or the Attorney General's or Saddam Hussein's. The library is always an instrument of choice, and the choice is always yours, not your elected or designated leaders.

In America, nostalgia for things is apt to set in before they go.