I Think The Story Is My Form.

We Do Not Choose To Be Born. We Do Not Choose Our Parents, Or The Country Of Our Birth. We Do Not, Most Of Us, Choose To Die; Nor Do We Choose The Time And Conditions Of Our Death. But Within This Realm Of Choicelessnness, We Do Choose How We Live.

My Wife Who Is Non-jewish Regrets It All The Time That I Can Say These Terrible Things About Fellow Jews And She Can't.

We Who Are Quotatious Are Never Truly Alone, But Always Hear The Cheerful Flow Of Remarks Made By Dead Writers So Much More Intelligent Than We.

I Am Not Merely A Habitual Quoter But An Incorrigible One. I Am, I May As Well Face It, More Quotatious Than An Old Stock-market Ticker-tape Machine, Except That You Can't Unplug Me.

I Know How Many Days In Which I Have Just Answered E-mail, Had Three Phone Calls And A Two Hour Lunch. Poof, Gone. They Are Not Infrequent.