The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.

The past is dead and buried. But I know now that buried things have a way of rising to the surface when one least expects them to.

Nothing helps an artist's career more than a little death and obscurity.

Want to talk about Shakespeare's sonnets?" asked Orphu of Io. Are you shitting me?" The moravecs loved the ancient human colloquial phrases, the more scatological the better. Yes," said Orphu. "I am most definitely shitting you, my friend.

Stupidity has a price and it always gets paid.

The life of a poet lies not merely in the finite language-dance of expression but in the nearly infinite combinations of perception and memory combined with the sensitivity to what is perceived and remembered.

Words are the light and sound of our existence, the heat lightning by which the night is illuminated.