“Incoherence seems to me preferable to a distorting order.”
“I am more greatly moved by people who struggle to express themselves...I prefer the abstract concept of incoherence in the face of great feeling to beautiful, full sentences that convey little emotion.”
“History loved to lie, through simple distortion or complete fabrication. Lies were the cosmetics of history, and when history could not be beautiful, it preferred to be shocking.”
“To dream in isolation can be properly splendid to be sure; but to dream in company seems to me infinitely preferable.”
“A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards and judgment in order to appeal to the irrationality, stupidity, or dishonesty of others.”
“My preferred pastimes are conversation, reading, travel and writing, in that order.”