Writers don’t have lifestyles. They just sit in little rooms and write.
It all comes down to who does the dishes.
The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.
In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.
Love is simple to understand if you haven’t got a mind soft and full of holes. It’s a crutch, that’s all, and there isn’t any one of us that doesn’t need a crutch.
Murder offers the promise of vast relief. It is never unsexual.
Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer.
Psychoanalysis and Zen, in my private psychic geometry, are equal to nicotine. They are anti-existential. Nicotine quarantines one out of existence.
To be married to a good woman is to live with tender surprise.
Horror films do not prepare us for the hours lost in searching after one clear thought.
Simple narcissism gives the power of beasts to politicians, professional wrestlers and female movie stars.
Insanity consists of building major structures upon foundations which do not exist.
I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that’s happiness, I told myself.
People who are greedy have extraordinary capacities for waste-they must, they take in too much.
In every death is a celebration; in every ecstasy, one little death.
The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again; it has perhaps not been here so intensely in thirty years, not since the Nazis were prospering, but it is coming back.
Left-wingers are incapable of conspiring because they are all egomaniacs.
Sex is not only a divine and beautiful activity; it’s a murderous activity. People kill each other in bed. Some of the greatest crimes ever committed were committed in bed. And no weapons were used.
Is one human? Or merely alive? Like a blade of grass equal to all existance in the moment it is torn? Yes. If pain is fundament, then a blade of grass can know all there is.
There is a no man’s land between sex and love, and it alters in the night.