John Derbyshire Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: b. June 3, 1945
Birthday: June 3
He [Mencken] was an autodidact, with all the misplaced confidence and all the astonishing gaps that characterize that breed. Not many of us would venture to write a book about democracy without ever having read de Tocqueville, nor embark on a translation of Nietzsche with only a sketchy knowledge of German.
topic: Book, Writing, Democracy, Sketchy
