Source: Short fiction, A Style in Treason (1970), Chapter 9 (p. 154)
“I am burning myself up and will always do so.”
Source: Much Ado About Nothing
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be some kind of library.”
Variant: I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
Samuel Johnson, quoted in James Boswell The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785), p. 487.
Criticism
“Nagiko, I am waiting for you. Meet me at the library. Any library. Every library. Yours, Jerome.”
Jerome's suicide note
The Pillow Book
Variant: I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do.
Source: 1975, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975), Ch. 6: Work
Source: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
Context: I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of "work" because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. People are working every minute. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.
A response to the Nazi book burnings, "The Burning of the Books"
Source: god is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
