The worst of this sorry bunch of semi-educated losers are those who seem to glory in being irritated by nouns becoming verbs. How dense and deaf to language development do you have to be? If you don’t like nouns becoming verbs, then for heaven’s sake avoid Shakespeare who made a doing-word out of a thing-word every chance he got. He TABLED the motion and CHAIRED the meeting in which nouns were made verbs

Talent is inborn, but technique is learned.

It's now very common to hear people say 'I'm rather offended by that'.

Generally, we admire the thing we are not.

Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their novels life-shaped, spurn the easy symmetry and cheap resonance of reality.

Hell, I am young. I am free. My teeth are clean. The sun shines. To hell with everything else

Nature admits no hierarchy of beauty or usefulness or importance.