'To pragmatists, the letter Z is nothing more than a phonetically symbolic glyph, a minor sign easily learned, readily assimilated, and occasionally deployed in the course of a literate life. To cynics, Z is just an S with a stick up its butt.'

'Nobody can say the word 'naked' as nakedly as Cohen.'

'All animals copulate but only humans osculate. Parakeets rub beaks? Sure they do, but only little old ladies who murder schoolchildren with knitting needles t…

'I'm looking for the novelists whose writing is an extension of their intellect rather than an extension of their neurosis.'

In the rough, a symbol is a sign that stands for something... Before a noise, etc., may become a symbol, something must exist for the symbol to symbolize.

For is not a Symbol ever, to him who has eyes for it, some dimmer or clearer revelation of the God-like?

We hypostasize information into objects. Rearrangement of objects is change in the content of the information; the message has changed. This is a language whic…