Like the majority of deaf people, I don't like blind people much.

A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive.

Mystery is the essential element of every work of art.

I find it [science] analytical, pretentious and superficial-largely because it does not address itself to dreams, chance, laughter, feelings, or paradox-in other words,-all the things I love the most.

If the devil were to offer me a resurgence of what is commonly called virility, I'd decline. ''Just keep my liver and lungs in good working order,'' I'd reply, ''so I can go on drinking and smoking!''

A paranoiac, like a poet, is born, not made.

Thank God, I am still an atheist.