It takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.

What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is 'all it does' - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it.

Lucky people develop a relationship with a certain kind of art that becomes spiritual, almost religious, and doesn’t mean, you know, church stuff, but it means you’re just never the same.

I felt the sort of soaring, ceilingless tedium that transcends tedium and becomes worry.

I have filled 3 Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me.

Our attachments are our temple, what we worship, no? What we give ourselves to, what we invest with faith. . . . Attachments are of great seriousness. Choose your attachments carefully. Choose your temple of fanaticism with great care.

This diagnosis can be done in about two lines. It doesn't engage anybody.