Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.

Raymond Chandler

One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to come up to you and show you a nice brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken, and this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the Jack of Spades jump out of the deck and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not bet this man, for as sure as you are standing there, you are going to end up with an earful of cider.

Damon Runyon

Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.

Sylvia Plath

Coogee Beach, Sydney, Australia
Sept. 2007

Coogee Beach, Sydney, Australia

Sept. 2007

One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.

James Joyce