Trying to Photograph a Hummingbird: Essays upon Essays

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Memoir &amp; Essay

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

"You always admire what you really don't understand."
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">— Blaise Pascal</p>

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — Frank Herbert

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

"The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter, eh?" — Dashiell Hammett

"Writing only leads to more writing." — Colette

“The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.” — Aristotle

"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry." — John Cage