For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.

I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific.

And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking.

When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.

Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?

The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging.

But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing.

I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.

When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook—a fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases.

Death is woven in with the violets, ” said Louis. “Death and again death.”)

Among the tortures and devastations of life is this then—our friends are not able to finish their stories.

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

Creating characters is easy. It’s getting them to behave that’s the problem.

He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to admire a pelican.

In the '90s, you couldn't say the word 'nerd' to someone when pitching a show. They would have considered that too niche and wouldn't have listened.

The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.

If Donald Trump's main claim to be president of the United States is your business, then I think we should talk about that.

I've tried to be a straight scientist doing the science and reporting it as best I can.

Before we get started, let's all say 'Happy Birthday' to Elvis Presley today.

In the faculty of speech man excels the brute; but if thou utterest what is improper, the brute is they superior.

I did not like the way I looked in a pair of white pants.