“Passionless is vulgar ("Metier: Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka")” — William S. Wilson Kafka Copy Share Image
“Every problem of medicine is a problem of language, and this operation was a malapropism.” — William S. Wilson Language 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Comparisons deplete the actuality of the things compared... ("Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want Bill Wilson To Read")” — William S. Wilson Compared 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
“...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
“...evolution propels itself by an inclination toward its next probable achievement." ("Desire")” — William S. Wilson Desire 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
“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
“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