He [Samuel Beckett] is great, a very great writer. Any modern writer is bound to be influenced by [James] Joyce. Of course, by Beckett as well.

How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.

If you are asking me what the individual can do right now, in a political sense, I'd have to say he can't do all that much. Speaking for myself, I am more concerned with the transformation of the individual, which to me is much more important than the so-called political revolution.

So many people in the Western World are just automatically made ill by any sort of frank writing about sexual matters.

Too perfect to be sexually attractive.

NOTHING happens by coincidence.

I'm definitely antiscientist because I feel that science represents a conspiracy to impose as the real and only universe, the universe of scientists themselves - they're reality-addicts, they've got to have things so real so they can get their hands on it.