Affection is the most important thing. And the quality of affection - with your friends, your lovers, your family. But particularly for your own generation.

The censorship of language is the censorship of consciousness.

To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard.

I learned a world from each / one whom I loved

Well, while I'm here I'll do the work — and what's the work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumbshow.

First thought, best thought.

The whole blear world of smoke and twisted steel around my head in a railroad car, and my mind wandering past the rust into futurity: I saw the sun go down in a carnal and primeval world, leaving darkness to cover my railroad train because the other side of the world was waiting for dawn.