Rumor had it that he was homosexual; in reality, in recent years, he was simply a garden-variety alcoholic.

The dream of all men is to meet little sluts who are innocent but ready for all forms of depravity—which is what, more or less, all teenage girls are.

Now abideth beauty, truth, and intensity; but the greatest of these is intensity.

Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

I don't like this world. I definitely do not like it. The society in which I live disgusts me; advertising sickens me; computers make me puke.

It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life.

The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape as the human brain.