That is our ‘pointed task. Love & die.

Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.

So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame because praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.

Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.

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).

These Songs are not meant to be understood, you understand. They are only meant to terrify & comfort.

That is our ‘pointed task. Love & die.