A Brief Historical Tour through the Mind of the Male Writer

He who reads Shakespeare looks round alarmed, and starts to find himself alone.

--Samuel Johnson, Observations on Macbeth

But there are a great many ways of outwitting oblivion, and to ask whether or not homosexuality is natural is really like asking whether or not it was natural for Socrates to swallow hemlock, whether or not it was natural for St. Paul to suffer for the Gospel, whether or not it was natural for the Germans to send upwards of six million people to an extremely twentieth-century death.

--James Baldwin, "The Male Prison"

When I am writing something, I try not to understand it. I do not think intelligence has much to do with the work of the writer.

                            --Jorge Luis Borges, "A Poet's Creed"

There are hundreds of millions of guys who would kill to take Raquel Welch out, and who is the lucky dude? Sonny Bono. Think about it, man.

--Sonny Bono, And the Beat Goes On

Argh, I hate autocorrect! I tried to type in "Shylock became a Christian" and it came out "Shylock became a crustacean"!

--my son, writing his essay about The Merchant of Venice