“Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.”

“Norman Mailer described the desire to be cool as a "decision to encourage the psychopath in oneself, to explore that domain of experience where security is boredom and therefore sickness and one exists in the present, in that enormous present which is without past or future, memory or planned intention.”

“To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only. It is the sole standard by which you have a right to judge me--the sole ground on which I accept your judgment.”

“Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.”

“I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.”

“The past above, the future belowand the present pouring down: the roar,the roar of the present, a speech--is, of necessity, my sole concern.”