I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. We must search for fragments, splinters, toenails, anything that has ore in it, anything that is capable of resuscitating the body and the soul.
Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.
My hunger and curiosity drive me forward in all directions at once.
I have found God, but he is insufficient.
Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.
My world of human beings had perished. I was utterly alone in the world and for friends I had the streets, and the streets spoke to me in that sad, bitter language compounded of human misery, yearning, regret, failure, wasted effort