realized that at a level I'd never been conscious we'd been engaged in a game of wits for years. I suppose most writer-subject pairings are like that. Of course, I'd set aside my plan to write about him [Clark Rockfeller] as soon as I'd gotten to know him some, but now I'd resumed that intention.
Walter KirnI feel like my head is finally the right size. I feel like it finally fits around my mind.
Walter KirnTo apologize for your personal absolutes, for what Sandy Pinter calls your โCore Attachments,โ means apologizing for your very existence.
Walter KirnThe strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialise alone.
Walter KirnWhat was more humiliating, I wondered: having to beg for someone's cold chicken bones or being offered them?
Walter Kirn