What seems beautiful to me, what I should most like to do, would be a book about nothing, a book without any exterior ties, but sustained by the internal force of its style . . . a book which would have almost no subject, or at least in which the subject would be almost invisible, if that is possible. The most beautiful works are those with least

People say “life is messy” and then want tidy stories.

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience deceptive, judgment difficult. It’s unsatisfying. Whatever that means.

Is it nonsense or brilliance? Wrote Virginia Woolf in the margin of her own manuscript.

Group 2 files past the gate agent single file, always the one guy who doesn’t have the boarding pass pulled up on his phone yet.

Self-absorption is practically a prerequisite for entrepreneurs.

The tyranny of electronic revisions means that one could work on a deck forever and never “finish” it.

Wikipedia, made by humans, for free, is a better search engine than Google, the most expensive and sophisticated algorithm in the world.

I received 500,000 discrete bits of information today, of which maybe 25 are important. Said David F. Wallace.