So the blind will lead the blind, and the deaf shout warnings to one another until their voices are lost.

Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.

I usually need a can of beer to prime me.

People who are greedy have extraordinary capacities for waste-they must, they take in too much.

The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.

I no longer gave a sick dog's drop for the wisdom, the reliability and the authority of the public's literary mind, those creeps and old ladies of vested reviewing.

The century would seek to dominate nature as it had never been dominated, would attack the idea of war, poverty and natural catastrophe as never before. The century would create death, devastation and pollution as never before. Yet the century was now attached to the idea that man must take his conception of life out to the stars.