I have now seen sucrose beaches and water a very bright blue. I have seen an all-red leisure suit with flared lapels. I have smelled suntan lotion spread over 2,100 pounds of hot flesh. I have been addressed as "Mon" in three different nations. I have seen 500 upscale Americans dance the Electric Slide. I have seen sunsets that looked computer-enhanced. I have (very briefly) joined a conga line.

If you worship power, you will feel weak and afraid, needing ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay.

Do not underestimate objects.

It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most "familiarity" is meditated and delusive.

The capital-T Truth is about life before death. It is about making it to 30, or maybe 50, without wanting to shoot yourself in the head.

You are what you love. No? You are, completely and only, what you would die for without, as you say, the thinking twice.

I like the fans’ sound at night. Do you? It’s like somebody big far away goes like: it’sOKit’sOKit’sOKit’sOK, over and over. From very far away.