“I regard writing not as investigation of character, but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.”

— Evelyn Waugh, The Art of Fiction 30, Paris Review, 1963

We choose the strangest churches in our so-called secular society.

Fun fact: almost no trade nonfiction books are fact-checked. Unless the author is a rare one who wants to (and can) pay for it out-of-pocket, your favorite books hit the presses full of whatever errors the author may have made. And everyone makes some.

I think people aren’t aware of how little is done about rape in general.