For some there is no musicNo lightsNo fireNo untamed madness that breathes lifeThere is workAnguishFrustrationRageDespairA dullness that rings like wooden thunder

One of the dumbest things you were ever taught was to write what you know. Because what you know is usually dull. Remember when you first wanted to be a writer? Eight or ten years...

It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a simple apology was all...

The only thing about 3-D is the dullness of the image.

What do you expect? Think we were sent into the world to have a soft time and what is it? Float on flowery beds of ease? Think Man was just made to be happy?- Why...

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world?

Le secret d’ennuyer est celui de tout dire.(The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.)”(Sept Discours en Vers sur l’Homme, 1738)

Better to be caught in sudden, complete catastrophe than to be gnawed by the cancer of imagination.