Guns don't kill people; people kill people. Of course, people with guns kill more people. But that's only natural. It's hard. But it's fair.

Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.

In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!

I believe in nothing that I cannot touch, kiss, embrace.... The rest is only hearsay.

This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.

Girls, like flowers, bloom but once. But once is enough.