The Accidental Aphorist is comprised of hundreds of reflections and aphorisms, maxims, pensees, fulminations and regrets, amusements, which have been gleaned from almost forty years of the author's notebooks. The far-ranging themes include the writing life, creativity, love, death, travel, art, soul, mythology and legend, movies, politics, mentorship, and sports. These coruscating passages are the sparks and threads that have led Phil Cousineau to write over 40 books, more than 25 documentary scripts, two dozen televsion scripts, and have inspired hundreds of his popular writing workshops and retreats.
Writing with the same admixture of philosophical inquiry, aesthetic curiosity, wacky word-play, quick-witted word portrait, and irreverent humor that is threaded through all of his work, Phil Cousineau has created a modern chrestomathy that reflects his dual passion for learning and teaching. The Accidental Aphorist: A Curiosity Cabinet of Aphorisms, Maxims, Epigrams, Pochades and Pensées, Gnomic Sayings, Laconics, Notebook Jottings, Back Thoughts, and Afterthoughts, is meant to stoke and provoke, jolt and cajole the idling imagination.
Author Biography:
PHIL COUSiNEAU has been an incorrigible quotologist and connoisseur of aphorisms of all stripes since he read Mark Twain, Jack London, Ray Bradbury, and The Sporting News as a boy. Since then he has published over 40 books, written or co-written more than 20 documentary films and contributed to scores of other books. Currently, he is host and cowriter of Global Spirit, which airs on PBS TV and Link TV, and is a guest host for New Dimensions Radio. He lives with his family on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco, California.
