Such writing is a sort of mental masturbation.... I don't mean that he is indecent but viciously soliciting his own ideas into a s...tate which is neither poetry nor anything else but a Bedlam vision produced by raw pork and opium.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that "Carpe Diem" ...is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds--for who can trust to tomorrow?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of argot. Indeed it is like a sor...t of repellent animal intended to dwell in darkness which has been dragged out of its cloaca. One seems to see a horned and living creature viciously struggling to be restored to the place where it belongs. One word is like a claw, another like a sightless and bleeding eye; and there are phrases which clutch like the pincers of a crab. And all of it is alive with the hideous vitality of things that have organized themselves amid disorganization.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »