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

It is not an easy thing to inflate a dog.

It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight.

So I write mainly for the fun of it, the hell of it, the duty of it. I enjoy writing and will probably be a scribbler on my dying day, sprawled on some stony trail halfway between two dry waterholes.

I stand for what I stand on.

All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour.

The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink.