Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions.

He was the only person caught in the collapse, and afterward, most of his work was recovered too, and it is still spoken of, when it is noted, with high regard, though seldom played.

[T]here is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.