Paradise is only for those who have already been there.

Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self.

The ordinary is the divine.

The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap.

very bright teeth as big and orderly as piano keys.

I would distinguish between a visitor and a pilgrim: both will come to a place and go away again, but a visitor arrives, a pilgrim is restored. A visitor passes through a place; the place passes through the pilgrim.

Life is that which - pressingly, persistently, unfailingly, imperially - interrupts.