"That is a nice short version, you wanna pick it up?"

"Was it too short?  Well, if I feel like my song is sung, I don't care if it's short.  And I feel like my song is sung."

-Johnny Cash, after singing "You are my Sunshine" on Cash Unearthed

If you have no Oscar Wilde, we won't Ezra Pound

"We need to make books cool again.  If you go home with somebody and they don't have good books, don't fuck them."
-John Waters

Overambitious and immeasurable

"Overambitious projects may be objectionable in many fields, but not in literature.  Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement."
-Italo Calvino, Six Memos for the New Millennium

Working on my paper

Taking notes on Of Grammatology.

Dancing lessons

"Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God."
-Kurt Vonnegut

Well...

"Well, that's what we want.  We want people to shit themselves."
-Britt Daniel (of Spoon)

Quijotesca

When I got you into exotic-looking girls Quixotic with my curls psychotic when unfurled narcotic pearls hypnotic twirls symbiotic erotics give it a whirl.