Cyberheaven

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

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

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

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

O, damn you and your Paris fads!

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

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

Think globally, act locally.

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