A toast to Bierce's Future!

The world is full of prodigies but my experience of the mean is that it is largely unchanged.

I'm all in favour of knowledge by osmosis

Do you keep notebooks? If yes, would you make them public?

Everytime I get a letter about someone else's missed fracture, I am confirmed in my paranoia....

"I don't quote from books...."

It is time to put away childish things....

Emotional housekeeping

"She began to watch television and tried to beleive the news."

Do the hard work. Take the road less travelled by. Who are they kidding: you still end up dead at the end of it....

To be imperfect is to be vouchsafed Grace....

A life as a monumental work of imagination.

"One must be both a mathematician and a poet. As though poetry were a science; or mathematics an art."

"One spoke of love and other trivia in French; one discussed tragedy and disaster in Russian; one did business in German; and one addressed servants in English."

"that the history of remote ages should always be so much involved in obscurity, uncertainty, and contradiction"

Instant gratification is addictive & withdrawal is a ....

Today has been a learning-disabled day....