
Source: Man Plus (1976), Chapter 4, “Group of Probable Pallbearers” (p. 41)
Source: Man Plus (1976), Chapter 4, “Group of Probable Pallbearers” (p. 41)
“You people would convict a grilled cheese sandwich of murder and the people wouldn’t question it.”
“You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.”
Medium Raw (2010)
Source: Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
“Don’t eat cheese. There are a million things to eat that are not cheese.”
On eating habits, Rollerderby fanzine (October 1993)
1991–1995
“This does not mean a meteor has fallen. This is the discovery of a star.”
Watts, Jonathan. “ Chinese Human Rights Activist Liu Xiaobo Sentenced to 11 Years in Jail http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/25/china-jails-liu-xiaobo.” Guardian, December 25, 2009.
2000-09, 2009
“Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars.”
Vol. 2 "The Art of Literature" as translated in Essays and Aphorisms (1970), as translated by R. J. Hollingdale
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Counsels and Maxims
Context: Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars. A meteor makes a striking effect for a moment. You look up and cry “There!” and it is gone forever. Planets and wandering stars last a much longer time. They often outshine the fixed stars and are confounded by them by the inexperienced; but this only because they are near. It is not long before they must yield their place; nay, the light they give is reflected only, and the sphere of their influence is confined to their orbit — their contemporaries. Their path is one of change and movement, and with the circuit of a few years their tale is told. Fixed stars are the only ones that are constant; their position in the firmament is secure; they shine with a light of their own; their effect today is the same as it was yesterday, because, having no parallax, their appearance does not alter with a difference in our standpoint. They belong not to one system, one nation only, but to the universe. And just because they are so very far away, it is usually many years before their light is visible to the inhabitants of this earth.
“Meteors are not needed less than mountains:
shine, perishing republic.”
"Shine, Perishing Republic" (1939)