During the next week, everyone noticed that my appetite had improved, even Toddy. Are you done with your hunger strike? he asked me curiously, one morning. Toddy, eat your breakfast. But I thought tha...
But when she was annoyed with me, she had a cold way of saying Apparently in answer to almost anything I said, making me feel stupid. Um, I can’t find the can opener. Apparently. There’s going to be a...
But just as everything was going along politely, quietly and wonderfully — in poured Citizen Danton and his crew.
A pottery outside Paris was turning out his picture on thick glazed crockery in a strident yellow and blue. This is what happens when you become a public figure; people eat their dinners off you.
A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age ... pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. They don't want to be who they are any more. They want out...
Then they began saying, "Get hold of him. Put him in Mercury." Now as you know I have two sculptures by Brancusi and several pretty things and I did not want them to start getting rough, so I said, pa...
It is not that I believe that there are too many idiots in this world, just that lightning isn't distributed right.
I was bored stiff while reading this. I got so bored I wanted to slit my wrists to see how my flatmate would react.
On the other hand, she was disproportionately indulgent towards the failings of men, and was often heard to say that these were natural.
Ah, if only we were born roaring with laughter and took that emotional template through life with us! Whoever's in charge seriously messed up somewhere. I can only hope that right now, that selfsame W...
Bad habits have brought me this far: why change such a tried-and-true formula?
What use is of an eye to be open if it's not there to see! Shouldn't it rather be gauged or closed for it deceives?
Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.
Some people never go crazy. Me, sometimes I'll lie down behind the couch for 3 or 4 days. They'll find me there. It's Cherub, they'll say, and they pour wine down my throat rub my chest sprinkle me wi...
The great are eternally at the mercy of tiny men. And also, tiny madwomen.
The shock of photographed atrocities wears off with repeated viewings, just as the surprise and bemusement felt the first time one sees a pornographic movie wear off after one sees a few more.
In 1969 I published a small book on Humility. It was a pioneering work which has not, to my knowledge, been superceded.
How on earth did I get here, and where the hell are my pants?
The big bad monster wasn't green and hiding under the bed, it wore tasteless floral prints, bright scarlet lipstick and sat in the kitchen smoking and saying 'bollocks' alot.
God in his infinite wisdomDid not make me very wise-So when my actions are stupidThey hardly take God by surprise.