God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.

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

If alcohol is queen, then tobacco is her consort. It's a fond companion for all occasions, a loyal friend through fair weather and foul.

Mystery is the essential element of every work of art.

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!''

You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all... Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it we are nothing.

I would give my life for a man who is looking for the truth. But I would gladly kill a man who thinks that he has found the truth.