it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion.

One's own surroundings means so much to one, when one is feeling miserable.

Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

There is no truth. Only points of view.

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.