Food Has It Over Sex

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.

Courage Is Nine-tenths Context. What Is Courageous In One Setting Can Be Foolhardy In Another And Even Cowardly In A Third.

For Me Writing Is Foremost A Mode Of Thinking And When It Works Well, An Act Of Discovery

I Was Recently Asked What It Takes To Become A Writer. Three Things, I Answered: First, One Must Cultivate Incompetence At Almost Every Other Form Of Profitable Work. This Must Be Accompanied, Second, By A Haughty Contempt For All The Forms Of Work That One Has Established One Cannot Do. To These Two Must Be Joined, Third, The Nuttiness To Believe That Other People Can Be Made To Care About Your Opinions And Views And Be Charmed By The Way You State Them. Incompetence, Contempt, Lunacy—once You Have These In Place, You Are Set To Go.

In Recompense, Envy May Be The Subtlest - Perhaps I Should Say The Most Insidious - Of The Seven Deadly Sins.