Anarchy

cannot, by definition,
ever rule.

Everything human

is tainted with desire.

Great comfort comes

from the recognition of
my insignificance.

For every good poem

there are perhaps a hundred
good novels.

(But novels are always
anecdotal.)

Sex and institutions

are the curse
of our species.

When you like several women very much

it is very much an advantage
not to be heterosexual.

Only through grief

will happiness emerge.

(?)

Rich countries

attract the worst people.

But so do the poor ones...

Knowledge

ploughs stupidly
exhausted land.

Be happy:

abandon hope.

Abandon hope
and be happy;

Power corrupts -

but comfort corrupts more,
more people,
more insidiously.

Mind

is also shit.

Ambition

is just a weasel-word for
greed.

You cannot be smart

and have a pure heart.

When you think about it

nobody reads anybody:
people just dip into each other.

In wishing the worst for humanity

I wish the best for the world.

Unpleasant people

have many friends.

Beata solitudo, sola beatitudo

To be single is not a curse
but an accomplishment.

A culture which has battery-hens

produces battery-people.

Time does not heal wounds.

It covers them with dirt.

It is way too late

for us to have a future.

Words are a plausible army

occupying the head.
That which most needs saying
is that which is left unsaid.

Looking forward to death,

to non-being
is a kind of paradox,
a strange logicality -
but mortality rocks!

I have given up friends

as friends have given up smoking.
And I have started smoking.

'Listen to the ear of your heart'

said St Benedict. Where
is the ear of your heart ? Where
is your heart ? Where
is your ear ? Where
is your reason ? You are
deaf and numb:
a jerking product.

Family and religion

divide us all
always.

Homosexuality

is a state of mind
which many men turn into psychosis.

It's not 'love'

that 'makes the world
go round' -
but the seizing
and abuse of power.

Which is worse:

that God is dead -
that poetry is dying -
or that the world
of the dodo is dead ?