So I have no grounds to complain; on the contrary, writers should consider the condition of permanent controversiality to be invigorating, part of the risk envolved in choosing the profesión. It is a fact of life that writers have always and with due consideration and great pleasure spit in the soup of the high and mighty. That is what makes the history of literature analogous to the development and refinement of censorship.

Who can deny that the environment has been destroyed?

Today I know that all things are watching, that nothing goes unseen, that even wallpaper has a better memory than human beings.

As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.

Art is hard for a puritan to understand.

I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense.

How easily the routine of sin establishes itself.