No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a basic incompatibility between any organization and freedom of thought.

Writers, like elephants, have long, vicious memories. There are things I wish I could forget.

In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.

The face of evil is always the face of total need.

I am trying like Klee, to create something that will have a life of its own, that can put me in real danger, a danger which I willingly take on myself.

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.

Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.