@svenbirkerts Careful, Sven. Someone somewhere is undoubtedly offended.

@svenbirkerts On my tombstone: "He could have, but he didn't."

@svenbirkerts "He had to, but would that he hadn't had!"

@svenbirkerts Dance of the Ents.

@svenbirkerts That I fail to achieve is the product of my will's surrender. Scialabba

@svenbirkerts Except for Twitter, of course.

@svenbirkerts Tch-tch. You're jealous of your own pleasures and envious of other people's.

@svenbirkerts Didn't Cocteau reply: "Astonish yourself, motherfucker!"

@svenbirkerts Some people are schmentities.

@svenbirkerts Fine for you, but then what would your Twitter followers do?

@svenbirkerts Did you know alcohol (88K deaths, $223 billion annually) is deadlier than guns (33K d, $56 bn)? Bring back Prohibition!

@svenbirkerts Bennington MFA Oh well, there's always the multiverse.

@svenbirkerts Hit the gym, man!

@svenbirkerts That's a mistranslation. Should be: "It's easier for a rich person to get a needle out of a camel's eye ... "

@svenbirkerts And neither will you, alas.

@svenbirkerts "Ars longa, vita brevis." - Horace "Ars brevis, vita longa." - Robert Christgau

@svenbirkerts Looking back on all you've read, critically and pedagogically, wouldn't you say this is all too often the case?

@svenbirkerts Hmm ... I think I understand Kissinger pretty well.

@svenbirkerts Book attained enlightenment and saw its past life as a tree.

@svenbirkerts Eggsactly!