A book is what gets me off: something with heft to it, that you can take in two hands and spread like a woman. Mnyum! - John Barth

I have remarked elsewhere that I regard the Almighty as not a bad novelist, except that He is a realist.

The night-sea journey may be absurd, but here we swim, will-we nill-we, against the flood, onward and upward, toward a Shore that may not exist and couldn't be reached if it did.

'Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o'erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the deed and lay open the soul of the doer.