Tuesday, December 9, 2025
“There was no one else like them, except for everybody.” Chuck Klosterman wrote that line to describe author Elizabeth Wurtzel and Mark Leyner in his book The Nineties. I’m not really familiar with either, but I love the concept. Successful artists have a unique ability to express things many feel, but few can express.
Wednesday, December 3, 2025
Harvey Firestone, the tire tycoon, once said this about rich men building big houses: “Why is it that a man, just as soon as he gets enough money, builds a house much bigger than he needs? I do not know why I do it - the houses are only a burden. But I have done it, and all my friends who have acquired wealth have big houses. But in most cases, and especially with men who have earned their own money, the house is just built, and when it’s done, no one quite knows why it was started.