Excuse me ... but I reject your definitions of me.

I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos.

Is love supposed to ruin you? It seems to me you shouldn't destroy yourself out of life for purposes of love--or what good is it?

A man should be able to hear, and to bear, the worst that could be said of him.

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything.

Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.