Henry James was our master of periphrasis--the fine art of saying as little as possible in the greatest number of words.
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J. Edgar Hoover, J. Bracken Lee, J. Parnell Thomas, J. Paul Getty--you can always tell a shithead by that initial initial.
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"The mind is everything," wrote Proust. No doubt true, when you're dead from the neck down.
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A good writer must have more than vin rose in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.
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Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get them read and talked about.
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