Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce.

I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell.

The platitude turned on its head is still a platitude

Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.