A few of my more popular essays…

To care about the state and quality of writing today is to scream into a void while knowing that the void does nothing but laugh…

Nothing makes you doubt the merits of a music education more than a neighbor who takes up the violin…

Regardless of what you do, it is imperative that you are productive. Forget about results. Forget about purpose. Forget about consequences…

These moments arrive whenever someone mentions something that I’ve written and I discover that I’m at a distance from my own words…