I admire the person who can write it right off. Mencken once said that a person who thinks clearly can write well. But I don’t think clearly–too many thoughts bump into one another. Trains of thought run on a track of the Central Nervous System–the New York Central Nervous System, to make it worse

I admire the person who can write it right off. Mencken once said that a person who thinks clearly can write well. But I don’t think clearly–too many thoughts bump into one another. Trains of thought run on a track of the Central Nervous System–the New York Central Nervous System, to make it worse. (James Thurber)