When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid.

The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.

I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes.

Works of art are meant to be lived with and loved, and if we try to understand them, we should try to understand them as we try to understand anyone — in order to know them better, not in order to know something else.

If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.

One may decide that the nipple most nearly resembles a newly ripened raspberry (never, be it noted, the plonk of water on a pond at the commencement of a drizzle, a simple bladder nozzle built on the suction principal gum bubble, mole, or birth ward, bumpy metal button, or the painful red eruption of a swelling), but does one care to see his breakfast fruit as a sweetened milky bowl of snipped nips? no.

The world of conceptualized ideas is quite wonderful, even when it's - like Aristotle's Physics - an outmoded book. The physics is not true. But the reasoning is dazzling.