300 Arguments

I like writing that is unsummarizable, a kernel that cannot be condensed, that must be uttered exactly as it is.

The first beautiful songs you hear tend to stay beautiful because better than beauty, which is everywhere, is the memory of first discovering beauty.

Respect the one-hit wonder not for his one hit but for all the days he must have suffered afterward, trying for another.

Is it a failure of my imagination that I’ve never been able to summon any genuine feeling about a sports team?

What’s worse: Offending someone or lying to someone? Saying something stupid when it’s your turn, or not saying anything? Tell me which, and I’ll tell you your problem.

Everything has to be paid for, especially money.

It isn’t so much that geniuses make it look easy; it’s that they make it look fast.

I’ve never seen a ghost and I don’t believe in them. I might see one tonight, but even then I wouldn’t believe in ghosts. I’d believe in that ghost.

Every success story can be told as a series of failures.