Maybe you are a poet and a dreamer, but don't you realize that those two species are extinct now?

Put a higher value on yourself. Being hyper-realistic about everything is too simple a get-out.

I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic.

Actually, the suburbs are far more sinister places than most city dwellers imagine. Their very blandness forces the imagination into new areas. I mean, one's got to get up in the morning thinking of a deviant act, merely to make certain of one's freedom. It needn't be much; kicking the dog will do.

It's true that I have very little idea what I shall be writing next, but at the same time I have a powerful premonition of everything that lies ahead of me, even ten years ahead.

A visit to Père Lachaise in Paris adds a year to one's life

My brief stay at the hospital had already convinced me that the medical profession was an open door to anyone nursing a grudge against the human race.