beware the average man the average woman beware their love, their love is average seeks average but there is genius in their hatred there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you to kill anybody not wanting solitude not understanding solitude they will attempt to destroy anything that differs from their own not being able to create art they will not understand art they will consider their failure as creators only as a failure of the world

I am ashamed to be a member of the human race but I don't want to add any more to that shame, I want to scrape a little of it off.

Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don't give a damn.

I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.

That's how it is with books, isn't it: They're not in a hurry. They'll wait for you till you're ready. People empty me. I have to go away to refill.

Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.

The less I needed, the better I felt.