The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.

Poetry - poiesis means a thing made.

To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.

Then a miracle occurred in the form of a plate of sandwiches. Geryon took three and buried his mouth in a delicious block of white bread filled with tomatoes and butter and salt. He thought about how delicious it was, how he liked slippery foods, how slipperiness can be of different kinds. I am a philosopher of sandwiches, he decided. Things good on the inside.

Under the seams runs the pain.

What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.

Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.