"Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone." — Anthony Burgess

He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child.

The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.

Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000.

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.