good is too often allied with vulnerability and evil with power.

I cannot teach -- if I teach as teaching should be I become so exhausted I nearly die, I seem to have no middle gear.

Passing in any crowd are secret people whose hidden response to beauty is the desire to tear it into bleeding meat.

You can understand why a system would seek information - but why in hell does it offer information? Why do we strive to be understood? Why is a refusal to accept communication so painful?

Absolutes are absolutely dangerous.

Man is an animal whose dreams come true and kill him.

Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in literature.