“One can have a wit, but not a witless”

“Acts have their being in the witness. Without him who can speak of it? In the end one could even say that the act is nothing, the witness all.”

“The lines gradually become their own demiurges and, like some witless yet miraculous participant, I witness the birth on paper of sentences that have eluded my will and appear in spite of me on the sheet, teaching me something that I neither knew nor thought I might want to know.”

“i'm alternatingly brilliant and witless-and sleepless: bed is just a swamp to roll in.”

“April 27. Incapable of living with people, of speaking. Complete immersion in myself, thinking of myself. Apathetic, witless, fearful. I have nothing to say to anyone - never.”

“Have McNab take the edge if you need one. Can he handle bad cop?""He does it really well during personal role-playing games when I'm the reluctant witness.”