“I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist...I am a person who does those things.”

“I just got a rather nasty shock. In looking for something or other I came across the fact that one of my cats is about to be nine years old, and that another of them will shortly thereafter be eigh...”

“Z is for Zillah who drank too much gin.”

“Mr Earbrass was virtually asleep when several lines of verse passed through his mind and left it hopelessly awake. Here was the perfect epigraph for TUH:A horrid ?monster has been [something] delay...”

“Neither mine nor other people's prospects seem particularly pleasing just at the moment, and I have fantasies of going to Iceland, never to return. As it is, I tell myself not to remember the past,...”

“This is the theory that anything that is art is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and its no good having one without the other, because if you just hav...”

“Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.”

“Doing nothing is the hardest torture that a person can put himself through. For he is always brought face to face with his own self, which demands that he gives account for the sun which he useless...”

“We just philosophize, complain of boredom, or drink vodka. It's so clear, you see, that if we're to begin living in the present, we must first of all redeem our past and then be done with it foreve...”

“Theres a reason humans peg-out around eighty: prose fatigue. It looks like organ failure or cancer or stroke but its really just the inability to carry on clambering through the assault course of m...”

“EnnuiTea leaves thwart those who court catastrophe,designing futures where nothing will occur:cross the gypsys palm and yawning shewill still predict no perils left to conquer.Jeopardy is jejune no...”

“Some people just live out their whole lives with some sort of ache in their heart they never resolve.”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“If I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and t...”

“I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and ...”