A character, to be acceptable as more than a chess piece, has to be ignorant of the future, unsure about the past, and not at all sure of what he's supposed to be doing.

I viddied that thinking is for the gloopy ones and that the oomny ones use like inspiration and what Bog sends. For now it was lovely music that came to my aid.

We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.

You don't say, 'I've done it!' You come, with a kind of horrible desperation, to realize that this will do.

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.

All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.

The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.