I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway.

Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want.

I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.

Hoping to fashion a mirror, the lover doth polish the face of his beloved until he produces a skull.

Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.

A photograph presents itself not only as a visual representation, but as evidence, more convincing than a painting because of the unimpeachable mechanical means whereby it was made. We do not trust the artist's flattering hand; but we do trust film, and shadows, and light.

It's not up to us what we learn, but merely whether we learn through joy or through pain.