Wastebasket Quotes

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter the text into my machine.

Someone once threw me a small, brown, hairy kiwi fruit, and I threw a wastebasket over it until it was dead.

I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.

Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.

I found a discarded textbook on calculus in a wastebasket and read it from cover to cover.