The quotation-business is booming. No subdivision of the culture seems too narrow to have a quotation book of its own.... It would be an understatement to say that these books lean on one another. To compare them is to stroll through a glorious jungle of incestuous mutual plagiarism.

It is significant that one says book lover and music lover and art lover but not record lover or CD lover or, conversely, text lover.

We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium in which we exist.

I have seen the future, and it is still in the future.

The alternative to doubt is authority, against which science had fought for centuries.

Cyberspace, especially, draws us into the instant.

Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes.