I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don’t mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set-up by the non-dreamers.
Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
Well as, one judge said to the other, ‘Be just and if you can’t be just be arbitrary.’ Regret cannot observe customary obscenities.
When he smiled the fear flew away in little pieces of light...
The rudeness of many Americans depressed him, a rudeness based on a solid ignorance of the whole concept of manners, and on the proposition that for social purposes, all people are more or less equal and interchangeable.
Sit down on your ass, or what’s left of it after four years in the navy.
There is a Senate and a Congress who carry on endless sessions discussing garbage disposal and outhouse inspection, the only two questions over which they have jurisdiction.
It is not the intensity but the duration of pain that breaks the will to resist.
After the shot he collapsed on the bed and lay there inert, but something was stirring in his spine from neck to the tail – and now pieces tore loose in the eggs and then a red, glistening head emerges in reeking yellow slime – and then the whole centipede crawling out quick.