A paranoiac like a poet, is born, not made.

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.

The bar is an exercise in solitude. Above all else, it must be quiet, dark, very comfortable-and, contrary to modern mores, no music of any kind, no matter how faint. In sum, there should be no more than a dozen tables, and a clientele that doesn’t like to talk.

Refuse any image that could have a rational meaning or any memory or culture.

If alcohol is queen, then tobacco is her consort. It’s a fond companion for all occasions, a loyal friend through fair weather and foul.

I can’t help feeling that there is no beauty without hope, struggle, and conquest.

If someone were to tell me I had twenty years left, and ask me how I’d like to spend them, I’d reply ‘Give me two hours a day of activity, and I’ll take the other twenty-two in dreams.’

Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I’d love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.

Age is something that doesn’t matter unless you’re a cheese.

Like the majority of deaf people, I don’t like blind people much.