something has been said for sobriety but very little.

Praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.

Them lady poets must not marry, pal.

Two daiquiris withdrew into a corner of a gorgeous room and one told the other a lie.

There is no such thing as Freedom (though it is the most important condition of human life, after Humility, -which does not exist either). There is only Slavery (walls around one) and absence-of-Slavery (ability to walk in any direction, or to remain still).

Literature bores me, especially great literature

Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn, and moreover my mother told me as a boy (repeatedly) 'Ever to confess you're bored means you have no inner Resources.' I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored.