About Mason Cooley: Mason Cooley is killing me."
Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.
People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.
The beloved is the ultimate fetish.
In psychoanalysis, only the fee is exactly what it seems to be.
My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.
In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing.
Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself.
Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?
Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.
I have learned to keep to myself how exceptional I am.
Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust.
My mind is led astray by every faint rustle.
While we are reading, we are all Don Quixote.
Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.
There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.
The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.
Even boredom has its crises.
Rescue someone unwilling to look after himself, and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness.
In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same.
What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance.
My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures.
