After a moment of shrinking back, we domesticate the grotesque.

Modern literature seduces with insults, riddles, and inside stories.

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.

Perhaps fortunately, no one has ever found out what it would be like to have all his wishes fulfilled.

Death is just around the corner. If only it would stay there.

An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.

My strengths make me contemptuous. My weaknesses make me charitable.