I wish the meeting had been as good as the lunch.
For me the question that you have to ask, about any magazine, is whether it's needed, whether it's publishing things that no one else could publish, or publish equally well. So there's that.
I’m a reader who uses fiction as a way of worrying about life.
I don't know what people should be reading. Only you know what you should be reading.
The real threat to reading isn’t the time we spend hanging out, it’s the time we spend online.
So, short stories have an even harder time, because they tend to get read during the day, between other things. They're interstitial. And yet the content of short stories tends to be very much "nighttime" content.
Our generation grew up with the Review as a fact of life. It was America’s literary magazine. To our minds, it still is. It has launched our favorite writers. It has made a special claim for the quarterly as such, being both timely and lasting, free of the news of the day or the pressure to please a crowd. Most of all, the Review has shown, repeatedly, that works of imagination can be as stylish and urgent as the flashiest feature reporting, and can do more to refocus our picture of the world.
The true investor. . . will do better if he forgets about the stock market and pays attention to his dividend returns and to the operation results of his companies.
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
I went to boarding school at seven and cried and cried.
There is a popular fallacy that falling down is the mark of a poor skater. But the truth is that when one stops falling, he has probably stopped improving.