“Paranoia has a sharper taste if the danger is real.”
“There is no literature and art without paranoia. Probably there would be even civilization. Paranoia is the world. It is the attempt to make sense of what has not.”
“Everybody has their security blankets in this world.Some are just sharper than others.”
“Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else's privilege.”
“A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard -- by stealing what he has a taste for, and can carry off”
“Let us never fear robbers nor murderers. Those are dangers from without, petty dangers. Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.”