Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.

Genius is finding the invisible link between things.

Use unlikely materials. Who would choose Pnin as hero, but how did we live before Pnin?

All my life I have been a poor go-to-sleeper. No matter how great my weariness, the wrench of parting with consciousness is unspeakably repulsive to me.

Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.

Thus, in pornographic novels, action has to be limited to the copulation of clichés.