Quotes About Thacker

Maybe the secret of the pessimistic aphorism is actually quite simple, even formulaic: one is always pretending to be a writer.

The expository head has a message (though not its own message), a message whose efficacy derives, in part, from the almost metaphysical presence of the head, and the equally metaphysical absence of the body.

Pessimism's propositions have all the gravitas of a bad joke.