Poetry & Prose

Gather a shell from the strewn beach And listen at its lips: they sigh the same desire and mystery, the echo of the whole sea's speech. And all mankind is thus at heart not anything but what thou art: And Earth, Sea, Man, are all in each.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.

"I have been drunk for about a week now and I thought it might sober me up if I sat in a library.

Proverbs for Paranoids, 5: Paranoids are not paranoids because they're paranoid, but because they keep putting themselves, fucking idiots, deliberately into paranoid situations.

Proverbs for Paranoids, 3: If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

Proverbs for Paranoids, 4: You hide, They seek.

The churches are empty, and the monarchy shipwrecked itself on its own vanity. Politics is a racket, and democracy is just another utility, like gas and electricity. Almost no one has any civic feeling. Consumerism is the one thing that gives us our sense of values. Consumerism is honest, and teaches us that everything good has a barcode. The great dream of the Enlightenment, that reason and rational self-interest would one day triumph, led directly to today's consumerism.