Build then the ship of death, for you must take the longest journey, to oblivion.

We must know, if only in order to learn not to know. The supreme lesson of human consciousness is to learn how not to know. That is, how not to interfere.

She herself had never been able to be altogether herself: it had been denied her.

I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.

If it doesn't absorb you, if it isn't any fun, don't do it.

I would like [the working man] to give me back books and newspapers and theories. And I would like to give him back, in return, his old insouciance, and rich, original spontaneity and fullness of life.

Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.