I'd rather sit down and write a letter than call someone up. I hate the telephone.

Even if one’s whole life were a mistake, there is always time to change.

How different the new order would be if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician.

I too love everything that flows: rivers, sewers, lava, semen, blood, bile, words, sentences. I love the amniotic fluid when it spills out of the bag. I love the kidney with it's painful gall-stones, it's gravel and what-not; I love the urine that pours out scalding and the clap that runs endlessly; I love the words of hysterics and the sentences that flow on like dysentery and mirror all the sick images of the soul.

After all, most writing is done away from the typewriter, away from the desk. I'd say it occurs in the quiet, silent moments, while you're walking or shaving or playing a game, or whatever, or even talking to someone you're not vitally interested in.

If the poet can no longer speak for society, but only for himself, then we are at the last ditch.

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.