Language is a virus from outer space.

Cheat your landlord if you can -- and must -- but do not try to shortchange the Muse.

Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't do at all. Sometimes one picture is equal to 30 pages of discourse, just as there are things images are completely incapable of communicating.

An addict never stops growing. Stupider.

The Planet drifts to random insect doom.

I took a shot of morphine, liked it, and eventually became addicted. It takes quite a while. It took me three months the first time. This nonsense of people becoming addicted with one shot is medically unsound.

There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place?