The urge for Chinese food is always unpredictable: famous for no occasion, standard fare for no holiday, and the constant as to demand is either whim, the needy plebiscite of instantly famished drunks, or pregnancy.

The urge for Chinese food is always unpredictable: famous for no occasion, standard fare for no holiday, and the constant as to demand is either whim, the needy plebiscite of instantly famished drunks, or pregnancy.

If on a friend’s bookshelf You cannot find Joyce or Sterne Cervantes, Rabelais, or Burton, You are in danger, face the fact, So kick him first or punch him hard And from him hide behind a curtain.

September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.

Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined with the imperative of accomplishing nothing.

Book-publishing is all about politics. Agents, editors, which books will be puffed, which ignored, etc.

I hate injustice, I despise inequity, I condemn hypocrisy, I abhor the lack of reason.