You don't say, 'I've done it!' You come, with a kind of horrible desperation, to realize that this will do.

We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.

Life is, of course, terrible.

Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not entirely.

A perverse nature can be stimulated by anything. Any book can be used as a pornographic instrument, even a great work of literature if the mind that so uses it is off-balance. I once found a small boy masturbating in the presence of the Victorian steel-engraving in a family Bible.

The essence of pop stardom is immaturity - a wretched little pseudo-musical gift, a development of the capacity to shock, a short-lived notoriety, extreme depression, a yielding to the suicidal impulse.

The not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad because they cannot allow the self.