The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum.

We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown.

I have made a silent compact with myself not to change a line of what I write. I am not interested in perfecting my thoughts, nor my actions.

When you come, please be so kind as to check your neuroses and psychoses at the gate... Fans and other obnoxious pests would do well to maintain silence.

I don't know whether you've ever had a woman eat an apple while you were doing it. Well, you can imagine how that affects you.

Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.