The 'open text' often emphasizes or foregrounds process, either the process of the original composition or of subsequent compositions by readers.

I was eventually to become one person, gathered up maybe, during a pause, at a comma.

The idea of the person enters poetics where art and reality, or intentionality and circumstance, meet.

To some extent, each sentence has to be the whole story.

A fragment is not a fraction but a whole piece

People must flatter their own eyes with their pathetic lives. The things I was saying followed logically the things that I had said before, yet bore no relation to what I was thinking and feeling.

Drinking Shirley Temple with my Mary Janes on, let's say that every possibility waits

I have accepted fear as a part of life-specifically the fear of change. ... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ...

If you wou'd be reveng'd of your enemy, govern your self

Geometry is the most complete science.

I don't care what it is, when it has an LCD screen, it makes it better.

I don't think it's the worst thing ever to start when you're in your twenties. You're not burnt out, you're going to stick around and most of the best cyclists are in their 30s.

We have millions of unemployed and cannot afford any more immigration. Where are they supposed to live? It is not viable.

People who fall in love with books never really stop falling.

Great Daniel Patrick Moynihan said that everyone's entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts. I'm not sure that's true anymore.

Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured.

She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.