You have to sink way down to a level of hopelessness and desperation to find the book that you can write.

I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.

I want to live as long as possible, just to see how stupid it gets.

The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.

In NY sensuality completely turns into sexuality - no objects for the senses to respond to, no beautiful river, houses, people. Awful smells of the street, and dirt... Nothing except eating, if that, and the frenzy of the bed.

What makes me feel strong? Being in love and work. I must work.

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.