Anybody can be a non-drunk. It takes a special talent to be a drunk. It takes endurance. Endurance is more important than truth.

Without literature, life is hell.

This incompleteness is all we have.

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

Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateurs drunks, the bores.

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.

Animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. Neither do I. Maybe that's why we get along.