The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client.

If you talk you always end up with politics, it gets nowhere. I mean man it's strictly from the soft typewriter.

Dennis Cooper, God help him, is a born writer.

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

My relationship with cats has saved me from a deadly and pervasive ignorance.

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. It is as final as the mountains: a fact. There it is. When you realize it you cannot complain.

If after having been exposed to someone's presence you feel as if you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.