You know a real friend? Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone.
Is Control controlled by its need to control? Answer: yes.
Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time.
Everything Jack says is to be taken with considerable reserve.
Human, Allen, is an adjective, and its use as a noun is in itself regrettable.
People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.
The self is like a pimping blackmailing chauffeur who gets you from here to there on word lines.
O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time...
A phenomenon must be to some extent comprehensible to be perceived at all.
I had the feeling that some horrible image was just beyond the field of vision, moving, as I turned my head, so that I never quite saw it.
The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not. – pg. 41.
The world wasn’t a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues.
The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body.
Some people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat.
It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to have some other trade.
If everyone is to be made responsible for everything they do, you must extend responsibility beyond the level of conscious intention.
Most people don’t see what’s going on around them. That’s my principal message to writers: ‘For God’s sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what’s going on around you.’
I see no reason why the artistic world can’t absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can’t we have advertisements with beautiful words and beautiful images?
Tell Allen I plead guilty to vampirism and other crimes against life. But I love him and nothing else cancels love.
Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing.