“Music is the highest art, no question. But literature is a friendlier one. It depends on us more, bores us more quickly, can't go on if we don't, can't stop saying what it means, can't stop giving us something to… — James Richardson Copy Share Image
If you do more than your share you'd better want to: otherwise, you're paying yourself in a currency recognized nowhere else. — James Richardson Copy Share
Metaphor isn't just a fancy turn of speech. It shapes our thoughts and feelings, reaches out to grasp new experience, and even binds our… — James Richardson Copy Share
It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell the roses.… — James Richardson Copy Share
Reason is the lesser faith that steers us when we have already lost a greater one. — James Richardson Copy Share
“On Writing: Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays 1. A beginning ends what an end begins. 2. The despair of the blank page: it is so… — James Richardson Copy Share
Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system. — James Richardson Copy Share
