Courage Is Nine-tenths Context. What

Generalization, Especially Risky Generalization, Is One Of The Chief Methods By Which Knowledge Proceeds... Safe Generalizations Are Usually Rather Boring. Delete That "usually Rather." Safe Generalizations Are Quite Boring.

High Standards Generally -- About Workmanship And Creation Of Objects, About What Is Owed In Friendship, About The Quality Of Art And Much Else -- Far From Being Snobbish, Are Required To Maintain Decency In Life.

That Wine Drinking Is More Effete Than Beer Drinking? No Question.

Someone — Cyril Connolly? Ezra Pound? — Once Said That Anything That Can Be Read Twice Is Literature; I Would Say That Anything That Bears Saying Twice Is Quotable.

I Have Myself Always Been Terrified Of Plagiarism - Of Being Accused Of It, That Is. Every Writer Is A Thief, Though Some Of Us Are More Clever Than Others At Disguising Our Robberies. The Reason Writers Are Such Slow Readers Is That We Are Ceaselessly Searching For Things We Can Steal And Then Pass Off As Our Own: A Natty Bit Of Syntax, A Seamless Transition, A Metaphor That Jumps To Its Target Like An Arrow Shot From An Aluminum Crossbow.