Quoting, Like Smoking, Is A Dirty Habit

One Cannot Make Up Stories; One Can Only Retell In New Ways The Stories One Has Already Heard.

A Literary Academic Can No More Pass A Bookstore Than An Alcoholic Can Pass A Bar.

The Sign Of A Good Marriage Is That Everything Is Debatable And Challenged; Nothing Is Turned Into Law Or Policy. The Rules, If Any, Are Known Only To The Two Players, Who Seek No Public Trophies.

What Marks A Writer Is This: Until She - Or He, Of Course - Writes Down Whatever Happened, Turns It Into A Story, It Hasn't Really Happened, It Hasn't Shape, Form, Reality.

One Hires Lawyers As On Hires Plumbers, Because One Wants To Keep One's Hands Off The Beastly Drains.