Man is a sad mammal that combs its hair.

Memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases.

The world is a never-ending cross-reference.

She had nothing to do all day ... but did it with the greatest possible speed.

I find it unbearable to need a body in order to exist.

Through men ... you learn how the world is. Through women you learn what it is.

Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.

I have never cared much for people. Most of them are cowards, conformists, muddleheads, moneygrubbers, and they infect each other.

As far as he could see, the world was moving, in an orderly capitalist fashion, toward a logical, perhaps provisional, perhaps permanent, end.

Conversations consist for the most part of things one does not say.

I am a hindrance to the world, and the world is a hindrance to me.

Love is divineLove is pure.Love is noble.

The fuel cell is just a fundamentally inferior way of delivering electrical energy to an electric motor than batteries.

If you do not seek to publish what you have written, then you are not a writer and you never will be.

The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

As I am a poet I express what I believe, and I fight against whatever I oppose, in poetry.

I believe in labeling things.

If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?

Observe your environment. Invite people into your life that don't look like you or think like you

It takes more than industry to industrialize.