Quotes of the day, August 21
August 8
It makes you wonder how this was discovered, because these are some pretty big numbers here. You can't have complete confidence in these numbers yet. I don't think management completely has the situation in their grasp.
August 7
It never occurs to Arnold that the ball won't go in the hole, but I'm always surprised when it does.
August 6
It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.
August 5
Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error. The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
August 4
I am, in general, favourable to activism and social movements and hostile to graft and corruption.
