Cyberheaven

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

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

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

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

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

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

O, damn you and your Paris fads!

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

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

“Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river.” ––Jorge Luis Borges

Thought is the thought of thought.

Think globally, act locally.

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

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

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