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each part of a story, each word if possible, was to work frontally as well as laterally... ("Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want Bill Wilson To Read")

I have associated myself with failed scientists in order to associate myself with failed irony. ("Metier: Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka")

In our time, the triumph of the political dissident has led to an explosion of freedom

A writer lives, at least, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies a deeper one of wonder at it all. To transmit that feeling, he writes.

TIRING FACTS OF INFANT SLEEP Babies enter sleep through REM sleep; they need help to go to sleep.

To be a well-flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature.

O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Like madness is the glory of this life As this pomp shows to a little oil and root.

No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

To fear the worst oft cures the worse.

But for your words, they rob the Hybla bees,And leave them honeyless.

In the posteriors of this day, which the rude multitude call the afternoon.

But now I am cabin'd, cribb'd, confin'd, bound inTo saucy doubts and fears.

Heaven take my soul, and England keep my bones!

O infinite virtue! com'st thou smiling fromThe world's great snare uncaught?

Unthread the rude eye of rebellion,And welcome home again discarded faith.

It is a heretic that makes the fire,Not she which burns in 't.

Show his eyes, and grieve his heart;Come like shadows, so depart.

Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens.

William Shakespeare

For this relief much thanks; 'tis bitter cold,And I am sick at heart.

A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in 't.