I started fooling around with quotation as a literary form in the late Seventies. Early on, all of my quotes were forged. That is, I wrote them myself and attributed them to others. Some of the supposed authors were real, others invented together with their eminently quotable books. All this came from Borges, I guess. He was quite important to me early on, and he used mock quotation with abandon. But then I started using real quotations, albeit slightly changed ones. There was a good deal of authorship to them still, as the changes typically turned the original meaning around. At long last, I turned to real quotations. The very act of selecting a string of words I identified with authorship. Interestingly, most of my quotes are of this last kind as of late. And they give me a great deal of pleasure. As far as I am concerned, the very question of authorship is receding in importance. As a commonplace book par excellence, my Residua only passes along whatever I have found worth quoting. Again, it is my own choice that is of the substance in this case rather than the original author. But I am ever more convinced that I should spend more time quoting in all the ways in which I have experimented to date. Quotation as a literary form is worth exploring to the hilt. Its pretended humbleness is the clincher, too.