To be any sort of competent writer one must keep one's psychological distance from the supreme artists.
An essay is a thing of the imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if there is an opinion, one need not trust it for the long run. A genuine essay rarely has an educational, polemical, or sociopolitical use; it is the movement of a free mind at play.
Life is that which - pressingly, persistently, unfailingly, imperially - interrupts.
Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.
Death persecutes before it executes.
The engineering is secondary to the vision.