Women: very good with the non-verbal communication.
“Koestler, who never lost his strong Hungarian accent but whose mastery of English was such that he was undoubtedly one of the twentieth century’s great prose writers in the language, replied (one can just imagine with what light in his eyes): ‘To vince is to flinch slightly viz pain.'” (via Books Inq)
Oh, please. G??del was Lewis Carroll’s nightmare. The man was a logician, after all. (via Maud)
“For me, good writing always transcends demographics.”
John Connolly channels Sylvia Plath, perhaps in an effort to break into the angsty teen girl demographic?
Mine: “After dinner, I sat and waited for Pyle in my room over the rue Catinat; he said, ‘I’ll be with you latest by ten,’ and when midnight struck I couldn’t stay quiet any longer and went down into the street.”
I’d like to dedicate this particular link to my long-suffering college roommate, who adores Edith Wharton.