We have the power to bore people long after we are dead.

There are two insults no human will endure. The assertion that he has no sense of humor and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers- most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to…