A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.

People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.

Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?

His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.

When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.

Explain nothing. Put it there. Say it. Leave.

Buttercup's mother whirled on him. 'Did you forget to pay your taxes?' (This was after taxes. But everything is after taxes. Taxes were here even before stew.)

Anything can become music if listened to long enough

War has no longer the justification that it makes for the survival of the fittest

Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality

Life has a truth to it, and it's complicated - it's love and it's hatred.

Direct cinema is about simulating a reality in which you're not having the overwhelming influence that you really are having.

Writing responds well to some gentle scheduling. A day job not only promotes solvency, it promotes creativity as well.

Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.

She's a surprise this old earth, one big surprise after another since before she separated from the moon who circles and circles like the mate of a shot goose.

The only position for women in SNCC is prone.