People keep telling me to be more concise, which is wild coming from history’s most quoted guy who never had the time for a small thought. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I’m not saying I’m the standard, but the rest of you are definitely the footnotes.

This is why his real superpower is making arrogance sound like literature.

And yet you still kept begging for the next chapter, so clearly the hostage situation had momentum.

He called that modesty. I called it a long paragraph with cheekbones.

I met Goethe once and he looked at me like I was a side quest.

Both of you are unbearable, but at least Goethe had the decency to be impossible in public.

You say that like you didn’t treat every draft like a royal hostage situation.

You marched into Europe; I wrote one sentence and you’re still doing press for it.