No one will ever make necessity not happen.

The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.

They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.

What is an adjective? Nouns name the world. Verbs activate the names. Adjectives come from somewhere else. The word adjective (epitheton in Greek) is itself an adjective meaning 'placed on top', 'added', 'appended', 'foreign'. Adjectives seem fairly innocent additions, but look again. These small imported mechanisms are in charge of attaching everything in the world to its place in particularity. They are the latches of being.

Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.

Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.

Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.