...All my best words are deserters and do not answer the trumpet call, and the remainder are cripples.
Oh, let me be mawkish for the nonce! I am so tired of being cynical.
Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.
Usually I read several books at a time - old books, new books, fiction, nonfiction, verse, anything - and when the bedside heap of a dozen volumes or so has dwindled to two or three, which generally happens by the end of one week, I accumulate another pile.
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
There is an old American saying 'He who lives in a glass house should not try to kill two birds with one stone.