Refuse any image that could have a rational meaning or any memory or culture

If someone were to tell me I had twenty years left, and ask me how I'd like to spend them, I'd reply 'Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.'

Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.

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

Repeat, over and over again, in case anyone forgets it or believes the contrary, that we do not live in the best of all possible worlds.

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

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