Nothing Is More Comical Than Seriousness Understood

Wordplay Hides A Key To Reality That The Dictionary Tries In Vain To Lock Inside Every Free Word.

Human History Is The Sad Result Of Each One Looking Out For Himself.

I Can't Think Of Another Writer Who Can Move Me As Surreptitiously As Vian Does

As If You Could Pick In Love, As If It Were Not A Lightning Bolt That Splits Your Bones And Leaves You Staked Out In The Middle Of The Courtyard. (...) You Don't Pick Out The Rain That Soaks You To The Skin When You Come Out Of A Concert.

Literature Is ... A Game, But It's A Game One Can Put One's Life Into.