a man should always observe fanaticism when he gets the…

“i ain't got the energy to argue. i'm an old man and i got to take a shit.”

— Johnny Shaw

“we remain children as long as we feel the urge to keep crossing this border and to learn.”

— Péter Nádas

“they are mystified by certain instances.”

— William Carlos Williams

“most reviews are written by morons about morons. sensibility is at a premium in american culture these days.”

— Jim Dodge

“the enemy you flee is not exterior to yourself”

— John Barth

“a reformer is a man who sees the world's superficial ills and sets out to cure them by aggravating the more basic ills.”

— Fernando Pessoa

“the thing about books is, there are quite a number you don't have to read.”

— Donald Barthelme

“make yourself invisible, or get busy with something.”

— Robert Walser

“fate is the ultimate preexisting condition.”

— Mark Leyner

“mead for my men!”

— Donald Barthelme

If you would know a man, observe how he treats a cat.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Lundist held that a man who can observe is a man apart. Such a man can see opportunities where others see only the obstacles

— Mark Lawrence

“thinking, when you first try it, is very difficult.”

— Charles Willeford

“The writer in him is only the shadow of the man, though so often we observe men whose art of writing is so great,…

— Stefan Zweig

“To truly take the measure of a man, you must observe him in the midst of trial and tribulation-then, from the bottom of their…

— Lucretius