Do not be duped by little duties. Do not be a chore man all your days.

Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.

There will be more calamities, more death, more despair. Not the slightest indication of a change anywhere. The cancer of our time is eating us away. Our heroes have killed themselves, or are killing themselves.

The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

To the man whose senses are alive and alert there is not even the need to stir from one's threshold.

I had to learn, as I soon did, that one must give up everything and not do anything else but write, that one must writer and write and write, even if everybody in the world advises you against it, even if nobody believes in you.

My hunger and curiosity drive me forward in all directions at once.