"In 1989, the world had 157 billionaires, perhaps 2 million millionaires, and 100 million homeless." --State of the World 1990

"...[Russian] is a tissue of idioms, which has never been systematized, as French or English has been. It is a language produced by illiterate people. ...It was not till the middle of the eighteenth century that a standard usage emerged." --Edmund Wilson, "My Fifty Years with Dictionaries and Grammars", in: The Bit Between My Teeth (1965)

"...the g in the masculine genitive singular () is pronounced as if it were a v ...had been pronounced as g in Bulgarian, but the Russians... never bothered to change the spelling." --ibid

"This language, so rich in vocabulary, was immensely expressive as a literary medium, but it was a language all made up of special locutions, and its wildly irregular inflections would have been hopelessly recalcitrant to any discipline as the European languages had undergone." --ibid

"O rhubarb burning by the sea!" --Mervyn Peake

"One of their [=the Peratae] books was most oddly entitled The Heads of the town up to the aether. It seems to have been, essentially, a description and enumeration of the powers of the lower heavens, which makes us think of the Archontici." --Jean Doresse, The Secret Books of the Egyptian Gnostics (1960)
[I think it was after reading Jack Spicer in The New American Poetry, & then going on to read more about him, that led me, first, to the Gnostics (by way of Doresse, tracking down where Spicer got the title of one of his books from, as i always liked to do in big libraries--), & later to my emulation of this naming-a-new-book-after-a-lost/fictive-old-one as a standard practice.]