In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

The shock of photographed atrocities wears off with repeated viewings, just as the surprise and bemusement felt the first time one sees a pornographic movie wear off after one sees a few more.

Pornography is one of the branches of literature - science fiction is another - aiming at disorientation, at psychic dislocation.

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.

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.

The decline of education in North America and I suppose in Western Europe makes it harder to have a common body of references.