A writer told me, “I didn’t get anything done today.” Answer: try to do nothing. The best way to have only good days is to not aim at getting anything done. Actually almost everything I’ve written that has survived was written when I didn’t try to get anything done. Just as there are authors who enjoy having written and others who enjoy writing, there are books you enjoy reading and others you enjoy having read. A genius is someone with flaws harder to imitate than his qualities. With regular books, read the text and skip the footnotes; with those written by academics, read the footnotes and
