All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.

Caught between the tongue and the taste.

THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM [all snap flags] Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect, spherical. Spherical was the problem.

Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that.

Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.

I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things-

I don't know that we really think any thoughts; we think connections between thoughts. That's where the mind moves, that's what's new, and the thoughts themselves have probably been there in my head or lots of other people's heads for a long time.