Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one?

I don't understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.

Well, he died. You don't get any older than that.

I write longhand and I type and I rewrite on the typed pages.

Erogenous zones are either everywhere or nowhere.

... there is wisdom in madness and strong probability of truth in all accusations, for people are complete, and everyone is capable of everything.

But the God I don't believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. He's not the mean and stupid God you make him out to be.