“Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.”

“In every day and in every way, we're all that much closer to death.”

“Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can.”

“The fact is that every author creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.”

“We are all dying, every moment that passes of every day. That is the inescapable truth of this existence. It is a truth that can paralyze us with fear, or one that can energize us with impatience, with the desire to explore and experience, with the hope- nay, the iron-will!- to find a memory in every action. To be alive, under sunshine, or starlight, in weather fair or stormy. To dance with every step, be they through gardens of flowers or through deep snows.”

“In this world, man is a target of death, an easy prey to calamities. Here,(in this world)every morsel and every draught is liable to choke one. Here, one never recieves a favor unless he loses another. Here, every additional day in one's life is a day reduced from the total span of his existance. When death is the natural outcome of life, how can one expect immortality?”