A Mulford

“When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation."

[As attributed by Alastair Reid in Neruda and Borges, The New Yorker, June 24, 1996; as well as in The Talk of the Town, The New Yorker, July 7, 1986]”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“There are times, they occur with increasing frequency nowadays, when I seem to know nothing, when everything I know seems to have fallen out of my mind like a shower of rain, and I am gripped for a moment in paralysed dismay, waiting for it all to come back but with no certainty that it will.”
― John Banville, The Sea

“To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.”
― Victor Hugo

“I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest