Philosophy - hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.

I don't read reviews and I don't know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.

It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.

Caught between the tongue and the taste.

We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. ... We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.

Under the seams runs the pain.

He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.