Cyberheaven

“Beware of artists. They mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous."— Queen Victoria

“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” ––Toni Morrison

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

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

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.

“Psychic spies from China try to steal your mind’s elation.” ––RHCP

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

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

“The head that will become a skull is already empty. Madness is the déjà-là of death.” ––Michel Foucault

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

Think globally, act locally.

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

“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.” ––Edgar Allen Poe

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