I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

It proposed that human beings, by the act of making witness, warranted times and places for their existence other than the time and place they were living through.

Because like all whores you value propriety. You are creature of capitalism, the ethics of which are so totally corrupt and hypocritical that your beauty is no more than the beauty of gold, which is to say false and cold and useless.

I have committed many sins in my life. This precise sin-the sin against poets-is without absolution.

The theory for admitting accomplice testimony that is uncorroborated is that conspiracy is by its nature secretive and that only the parties to it can know it occurred. But in practice this means the accomplice's guilt is modified to the degree that he can convict the defendant.

Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and can lead to wars.

The voice of the Constitution is the inescapably solemn self-consciousness of the people giving the law unto themselves.