I was always on my oddy knocky.

If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed.

That so many writers have been prepared to accept a kind of martyrdom is the best tribute that flesh can pay to the living spirit of man as expressed in his literature. One cannot doubt that the martyrdom will continue to be gladly embraced. To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the only thing in the world that matters.

We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilization.

This must be a real horrorshow film if you're so keen on my viddying it.

Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing.

laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my sword-pen.