What I really hated, of course, was my mind. There must have been an off switch somewhere, but I was damned if I could find it. - David Sedaris

True art was based upon despair, and the important thing was to make yourself and those around you as miserable as possible.

Perhaps the little Negro girl was holding a concealed razor blade. Maybe she was one of the troublemakers out for a fresh white scalp.

Shopping has nothing to do with money. If you have it, you go to stores and galleries, and if not, you haunt flea markets or Goodwills. Never, though, do you not do it, choosing instead to visit a park or a temple or some cultural institution where they don’t sell things.