[I]t is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A book for him or her is not an ...expression or a series of expressions, but literally a volume, a prism with six rectangular sides made of thin sheets of papers which should include a cover, an inside cover, an epigraph in italics, a preface, nine or ten parts with some verses at the beginning, a table of contents, an ex libris with an hourglass and a Latin phrase, a brief list of errata, some blank pages, a colophon and a publication notice: objects that are known to constitute the art of writing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this... world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standin...g on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All in the golden afternoon Full leisurely we glide;... For both our oars, with little skill, By little arms are plied, While little hands make vain pretense Our wanderings to guide.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »