Sep 1, 2014
I have to wish there had been more such instruction, and that it had been closer to explicit in a philosophical sense. Most of all I wish my father had passed along some detailed notion of how to be a boss. It was a thing he seemed to do naturally. I wish he had made clear to me the dangers of posturing in front of people who are in some degree dependent upon your whims, posturing until you have got yourself deep into the fraud of maintaining a distance and mystery in place of authenticity. A man once told me to smoke cigars. 'They see you peel that cellophane,' he said, 'and they know you don't live like they do.'
William Kittredge, Who Owns the West?