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Stop worrying about the 'dumbing down' of our language by bloggers, tweeters, cableheads and MSM thumbsuckers engaged in a 'race to the bottom' of the page by little minds confined to little words. ”
To be accused of 'channeling' is to be dismissed as a ventriloquist's live dummy, derogated at not having a mind of one's own. ”
I'm willing to zap conservatives when they do things that are not libertarian. ”
Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague. ”
The wonderful thing about being a New York Times columnist is that it's like a Supreme Court appointment - they're stuck with you for a long time. ”
In what way can a revelation be made but by miracles? In none which we are able to conceive. ”
Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference. ”
Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't do at all. Sometimes one picture is equal to 30 pages of discourse, just as there are things images are completely incapable of communicating. ”
Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: 'For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.' ”
Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage. ”