"One of the things I miss about teaching is that students would tell me what I ought to read. One of my students, back in the 1960s, put me onto Borges, and I remember another mentioning Flann O'Brien's At Swim Two-Birds in the same way."

-- John Barth

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“The best time to act on this was decades ago. The second best time is now.”
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.”
“As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end.”
“The mind and the body are like parallel universes. Anything that happens in the mental universe must leave tracks in the physical one”
“I do get a little shy about contemporary language and events, but I also enjoy the idea of dating myself, somehow, anchoring a song in a specific time and place. Sometimes the new words and objects are too enjoyable and descriptive to ignore. And maybe making work that acknowledges that it won't last forever is important, too.”

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“The perpetual struggle for room and food.”
“I admire actors and artists who devote just as much time to their life as they do to their work.”
“As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It's a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write. Having anybody watching that or attempting to share it with me would be grisly.”

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