The surfeit of bad trends pushes me to set my stories in worlds which are often diminished versions of our own present.
With much we surfeit; plenty makes us poor.
Surfeit begets insolence, when prosperity comes to a bad man.
People are tired of liberty. They have had a surfeit of it. Liberty is no longer a chaste and austere virgin. . . . Today's youth are moved by other slogans. . . Order, Hierarchy, Discipline.
I shall speak of how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another. . . of the revulsion that follows one insight and precedes the next. . . of superabundance and surfeit. Of stasis in progress. And of myself, for whom melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.
God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society.
All surfeit is the father of much fast.
Information. . . exhausts itself in the staging of meaning. . . [and leads] not at all to a surfeit of innovation but to the very contrary, to total entropy
