What does long life avail? The best seats at the funerals of friends.

Major writing is to say that which has been seen, so that it need never be said again; so that which has been seen increases, changes in reality, in being.

Even paranoids have real enemies.

I got married the second time in the way that, when a murder is committed, crackpots turn up at the police station to confess the crime.

What was the freedom to which the adult human being rose in the morning, if each act was held back or inspired by the overpowering ghost of a little child?

Poetry must be as new as foam & old as rock.

All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram.