Even things which seem separate and finished are infinitely connected and will infinitely connect. This connection happens as soon as you let it, as soon as you engage - as soon as you even attempt to engage.

I went to the top of Vesuvius and looked in.

It's about the connecting force from form to form. It's the toe bone connecting to the shoulder bone. It's the bacterial kick of life force, something growing out of nothing, forming itself out of something else. Form never stops. And form is always environmental.

All we are is eyes looking for the unbroken or the edges where the broken bits might fit each other.

We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once.

Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.

The proper word for me," Robin Goodman says, "is me.