To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense.

I believe in political solutions to political problems. But man's primary problems aren't political; they're philosophical. Until humans can solve their philosophical problems, they're condemned to solve their political problems over and over and over again. It's a cruel, repetitious bore.

Poetry, the best of it, is lunar and is concerned with the essential insanities. Journalism is solar (there are numerous newspapers named The Sun, none called The Moon) and is devoted to the inessential.

There are only two mantras, yum and yuck, mine is yum.

Any half-awake materialist well knows - that which you hold holds you.

When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens.