The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue.
First thought, best thought.
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.
I didn't know the names of the flowers - now my garden is gone.
one must verge on the unknown, write toward the truth hitherto unrecognizable of one’s own sincerity, including the avoidable beauty of doom, shame, and embarrassment, that very area of personal self-recognition,(detailed individual is universal remember) which formal conventions, internalized, keep us from discovering in ourselves and others
Well, while I'm here I'll do the work — and what's the work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumbshow.
Which way will the sunflower turn surrounded by millions of suns?
I'm fiercely proud to be Scottish.
I am in the penitentiary. The only thing that I do is my time.
Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.
The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.