A wise man …

… Anecdotal Evidence: `Reading Chekhov Helps'. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

“The people I am afraid of are the ones who look for tendentiousness between the lines and are determined to see me as either liberal or conservative. I am neither liberal, nor conservative, nor gradualist, nor monk, nor indifferentist. I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one.”

I have few regrets, though one is any attachment I may have had to political partisanship. Few things seem more corrupting.