Archives - August 2001

Nothing fruitful ever comes when plants are forced to flower in the wrong season.

One's prime is elusive.

Fishing. Something between a sport and a religion.

The poet is the priest of the invisible.

I believe all literature started as gossip.

Everything is funny as long as it happens to somebody else.

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it can never be recalled.

The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.

Certain peace is better than anticipated victory.

Remarks are not literature.

Pitching is...the art of instilling fear.

The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

The is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

Any fool can tell the truth but it takes a man of some wit to know how to tell a lie.

I just want to say one word to you. Just one word. Are you listening? Plastics.

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction we are loved.

He who only knows his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Whenever I get the urge to exercise, I lay down until it goes away.

Since flesh can't stay,/ we pass the words along.

A great man is always willing to be little.

Even bad books are books and, therefore, sacred.

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

There is but one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Literature is the last banquet between minds.

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

Without the spice of guilt, sin cannot be fully savored.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

Good writing is about telling the truth.

There is always a but in this imperfect world.

How smartly September comes in, like a racing gig, all style, no confusion.