First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.

Agony without genius was gaucherie.

But memory, after a time, dispenses its own emphasis, making a feuilleton of what we once thought most ponderable, laying its wreath on what we never thought to recall.

The young show the genetic process, the old merely die of it.

if you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications.

Balance is compromise. Of the muscles.

It took most people a lifetime to join the human race.