Our memories are card indexes consulted, and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.
Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.
What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.
The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers.
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.