People must flatter their own eyes with their pathetic lives. The things I was saying followed logically the things that I had said before, yet bore no relation to what I was thinking and feeling.

I was eventually to become one person, gathered up maybe, during a pause, at a comma.

The idea of the person enters poetics where art and reality, or intentionality and circumstance, meet.

The 'open text' often emphasizes or foregrounds process, either the process of the original composition or of subsequent compositions by readers.

To some extent, each sentence has to be the whole story.

A fragment is not a fraction but a whole piece

Drinking Shirley Temple with my Mary Janes on, let's say that every possibility waits

Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes!

Some of the worst places I've ever lived in were fear, pain, and shame. The cost of living was so high, your only choice was a slow death.

Shit, I have already read this....

A three-quarter moon, glowering bone, with a hint of something bruised, battered, scarred. The moon has endured more than anybody can know.

'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.

Many people will laugh at the drop of a hat, especially if the man is still in it.

If networks are to be more efficient...this will come about only on the basis of a high level of trust and the existence of shared norms of ethical behavior between network members

If you fall, you fall," Elodin shrugged. "Sometimes falling teaches us things too." In dreams you often fall before you wake.

Why are you helping me? (Fury) I don’t know. Apparently I’m having a moment of extreme stupidity. (Angelia)

Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.