Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don’t redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history.

[On marriage:] It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings.

Talking like touching. Writing like punching somebody.

Persons who merely have-a-life customarily move in a dense fluid. That's how they're able to conduct their lives at all. Their living depends on not seeing.

A great writer has all 4 - but you can still be a good writer with only 1 and 2.

All my life I've been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.