Cyberheaven

The head that will become a skull is already empty. Madness is the déjà-là of death.

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue.

“Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.” —Isaac Asimov

Psychic spies from China try to steal your mind’s elation.

A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.

O, damn you and your Paris fads!

My best sources are my travels and my collection of National Geographic.

“If a student works rigorously, no topic is truly foolish.” —Umberto Eco

Think globally, act locally.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

“We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own.” ––Harold Bloom

True translation is transparent: it does not obscure the original, does not stand in its light, but rather allows pure language.

Thought is the thought of thought.

“No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald