Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.

Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.

We're creators by permission, by grace as it were. No one creates alone, of and by himself. An artist is an instrument that registers something already existen…

If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, u…

Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.…

Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.