The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even - if you will - eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.

The government, the state, they're just objects of jokes rather than serious consideration. I can't possibly take them seriously.

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family. Even your super weirdo creep cousin.

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.

When the eye fails to find beauty-alias solace-it commands the body to create it, or, failing that, adjusts itself to perceive virtue in ugliness.

Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation.

As long as the state permits itself to interfere in the affairs of literature, literature has the right to interfere with the affairs of state.