For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me.

I do not know if it has ever been noted before that one of the main characteristics of life is discreteness. Unless a film of flesh envelopes us, we die. Man exists only insofar as he is separated from his surroundings. The cranium is a space-traveler's helmet. Stay inside or you perish. Death is divestment, death is communion. It may be wonderful to mix with the landscape, but to do so is the end of the tender ego.

Age indomitably, in the European manner. Do not finish your labours young. Be a planet, not a meteor. Honor the working day. Sit at your desk.

Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth.

It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.

Let all of life be an unfettered howl.

I adore you, mon petit, and would never allow him to hurt you, no matter how gently or madly.