"If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the passion-stains on the bedsheets."

"God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image."

"When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you."

"My neighbour doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied."

"Alarms clang as a radarman tracks an attack craft that can jam radar and dart past flak at half a Mach: ack-ack-ack, …"

"Whenever Helen sleeps, her fevered rest meekens her; hence, she re-emerges enfeebled — her strength, expended; her re…"

"Lightning blinks, striking things in its midst with blinding light. Whirlwinds whirl; driftwinds drift. Spindrift is …"

"Loops on bold fonts now form lots of words for books. Books form cocoons of comfort – tombs to hold bookworms. Profs …"

"Duluth dump trucks lurch, pull U-turns. Such trucks dump much undug turf: clunk, clunk — thud. [...] Such pumps suck …"

"The , which measures the , together with the total energy density of the Universe, sets the size of the observable Un…"