I Don't Believe In Providence And Fate,

It Is Only The Consciousness Of A Nonexistence Which Allows Us To Realize For Moments That We Are Living.

Thou Shalt Not, It Is Said, Make Unto Thee Any Graven Image Of God. The Same Commandment Should Apply When God Is Taken To Mean The Living Part Of Every Human Being, The Part That Cannot Be Grasped. It Is A Sin That, However Much It Is Committed Against Us, We Almost Continually Commit Ourselves--except When We Love.

A Society Needs Famous People; The Question Is Whom It Chooses For That Role. Any Criticism Of Its Choice Is By Implication A Criticism Of That Society.

Our Guilt Has Its Uses. It Justifies Much In The Lives Of Others.

The American Way Of Life. Even What They Eat And Drink, These Palefaces Who Don't Know What Wine Istheir Uglinesstheir Pink Sausage Skin, Horrible, They Only Live Because There Is Penicillin,... The World As An Americanized Vacuumtheir Fake Health, Their Fake Youthfulnessthe Way They Use Cosmetics Even On Corpses, Their Whole Pornographic Attitude To Death.