Quotes on Telling

Could it be, I wonder, that there is such a thing as a wantologist, someone we can hire to figure out what we want? Have I arrived at some final telling moment in my research on outsourcing intimate parts of our lives, or at the absurdist edge of the market frontier?

With poets, the choice of words is invariably more telling than the story line; that's why the best of them dread the thought of their biographies being written.