Insomnia is an all-night travel agency with posters advertising faraway places.
One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.
If the sky falls they shall have clouds for supper.
Roberto Calasso's survey of the renewed interest in myth demonstrates how decisive the gods' influence was on modern literature. Calasso is not only immensely learned; he is one of the most original thinkers and writers we have today.
The highest levels of consciousness are wordless.
The stone is a mirror which works poorly. Nothing in it but dimness. Your dimness or its dimness, who's to say? In the hush your heart sounds like a black cricket.