Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it. To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art.

I wasn't sleeping on the streets at night. Of course, there were a lot of good people sleeping in the streets. They weren't fools, they just didn't fit into the needed machinery of the moment. And those needs kept altering.

and I laugh, I can still laugh, who can't laugh when the whole thing is so ridiculous that only the insane, the clowns, the half-wits, the cheaters, the whores, the horseplayers, the bankrobbers, the poets ... are interesting?

I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.

Why did I come here? I thought. Why is it always only a matter of choosing between something bad and something worse?

True revolution comes from true revulsion; when things get bad enough the kitten will kill the lion.

People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws.