A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle.
There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.
Thus, in pornographic novels, action has to be limited to the copulation of clichés.
Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.
Which arrow flies for ever? The arrow that has hit its mark.
Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very short walk. Make those twenty-five steps. Now. Right now. Come just as you are. And we shall live happily ever after.