Some Smiles and Some Truths . . .

"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."
-- Flannery O'Connor

"Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin."
-- Stanislaw J. Lec

"Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons."
-- Will Cuppy

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
-- Soren Kierkegaard