Today I realize that many recent exercises in "deconstructive reading" read as if inspired by my parody. This is parody's mission: it must never be afraid of going too far. If its aim is true, it simply heralds what others will later produce, unblushing, with impassive and assertive gravity.

But laughter is weakness, corruption, the foolishness of our flesh.

I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.

Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.

When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.

Every great thinker is someone else's moron.

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.