Tuesday

Twitterables

Courtesy of Bill Kauffman:

Henry James's definition of a cosmopolite: a little bit of everything and not much of anything.

Three a.m., the soul's midnight, as Ray Bradbury calls it.

Conversation is the casualty in the empire of noise.

Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine (1957), the finest evocation of a boyhood summer I have read.

that Mormon-Jewish hybrid Warren Zevon.

Prostitution is legal in Nevada but mandatory in D.C.

Since Howells had left school at fifteen he had been able to become very learned indeed.

The sanctimonious are merciless.