“Reading a text is more like tracing this process of constant flickering than it is like counting the beads on a necklace.”

“I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night, and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye.”

“An ecosystem is more like a conference than a community -- indefinite, pluralistic, tolerant, and in constant flux.”

“Changes in the inhabitants of the earth do not reflect a constant process of improvement in the design of organisms, any more than changes in fashion over the years reflect a constant process of improvement in the quality of clothing.”

“Whereas the work is understood to be traceable to a source (through a process of derivation or "filiation"), the Text is without a source — the "author" a mere "guest" at the reading of the Text.”

“Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion; it is like a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.”

“A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.”

“[Examiners] spend their lives in discovering which pages of a text-book a man ought to read and which will not be likely to 'pay.”

“The hooded clouds, like friars,
Tell their beads in drops of rain.”

“I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like a child stringing beads in kindergarten - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.”