Long before I became 'rich and famous' I just sat round drinking wine and staring at the walls.

mercy, I think, doesn't the human race know anything about mercy?

a good book can make an almost impossible existence, liveable ( from 'the luck of the word' )

Humanity, you never had it from the beginning." That was my motto.

I'll use the knives for spreading jam, and the gas to warm my greying love.

LSD, yeah, the big parade – everybody's doin' it now. Take LSD, then you are a poet, an intellectual. What a sick mob. I am building a machine gun in my closet now to take out as many of them as I can before they get me.

Let it die. Let there be a new beginning. It’s awful. Goodnight.