“I was very lighthearted. This often the way when the abandonment of personal responsibility is enforced: neither wronged innocence or just guilt can seriously impair the sensation of freedom one has.”

“Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?”

“Look, I don't see why bad artists - I mean artists who are obviously incompetent... - why they should be presented hypocritically as good artists just because they're supposed to be advancing the frontiers of freedom of expression or... ...demonstrating that there should be no limit on subject matter.”

“Oh, it was gorgeosity and yumyumyum. When it came to the Scherzo I could viddy myself very clear running and running on like the very light and mysterious nogas, carving the whole litso of the creeching world with my cut-throat britva.”

“If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed.”

“I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.”

“It'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God it'll torture you to madness.”