“Every problem of medicine is a problem of language, and this operation was a malapropism.” — William S. Wilson Language Copy Share Image
“Passionless is vulgar ("Metier: Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka")” — William S. Wilson Vulgar Copy Share Image
“Psychological motivation is the desire to change relations between two points, and so psychology is the study of equations with two unbound… — William S. Wilson Desire to change Copy Share Image
“For that half-hour in the hospital delivery room I was intimate with immensity, for that half-minute before birth I held her hands… — William S. Wilson Accident Copy Share Image
“The woman who undergoes this operation can sense the morphogenetic field at work in her face. She can feel the lines of… — William S. Wilson Aging Copy Share Image
“You might say as you tirelessly said of my stories, at least of the adjectives, that I should render the evidence, not… — William S. Wilson Writing Copy Share Image
“I don't think that anyone outside Paris can understand love and murder as we do. But Emile loves Paris, and loving Paris… — William S. Wilson Love Copy Share Image
“I find no reason to think that aging is genetically determined. Genes do not provide information for the development of the individual… — William S. Wilson Aging Copy Share Image
“Comparisons deplete the actuality of the things compared... ("Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want Bill Wilson To Read")” — William S. Wilson Comparison Copy Share Image
“...each part of a story, each word if possible, was to work frontally as well as laterally... ("Conveyance: The Story I would… — William S. Wilson Language Copy Share Image
“Turning and climbing, the double helix evolved to an operation which had always existed as a possibility for mankind, the eating of… — William S. Wilson Children Copy Share Image
“The stories of young men searching for their fathers are the stories of young men who through their adventures father themselves by… — William S. Wilson Fathers Copy Share Image
“Today, and let us celebrate this fact, We can eat the light of our beloved, warmed by compassion or cooled by intellectual… — William S. Wilson Compassion Copy Share Image
“...evolution propels itself by an inclination toward its next probable achievement." ("Desire")” — William S. Wilson Evolution Copy Share Image
“It's my side. I have found the pain. It is in my side, and I isolate it and define it, and arrange… — William S. Wilson Marriage Copy Share Image
“I have associated myself with failed scientists in order to associate myself with failed irony. ("Metier: Why I Don't Write Like Franz… — William S. Wilson Irony Copy Share Image
