Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.

I don't believe in convention at all. I do what I have to do to stay alive.

I stay in one room, and it's easier to live there, to control it, to make it warm. It seems to me a convenient way to live, and it's cheap.

Other-cheekism is not only a way of purifying the soul, it is also part of every weak person's survival kit.

Style, in the broadest sense of all, is consciousness. More specifically it is a consistent idiom arising spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.

I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.