I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning.

The trouble with a mask is it never changes

If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.

In a capitalistic society the losers slaved for the winners and you have to have more losers than winners.

my greatest problem was stamps, envelopes, paper and wine, with the world on the edge of World War II.

The human race had always disgusted me. essentially, what made them disgusting was the family-relationship illness, which included marriage, exchange of power and aid, which neighborhood, your district, your city, your county, your state, your nation-everybody grabbing each other's assholes in the Honeycomb of survival out of a fear-animalistic stupidity.

if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don't do it.