He didn't reject the idea so much as not react to it and watch as it floated away. He thought very broadly of desires and ideas being watched but not acted upon, he thought of impulses being starved of expression and dying out and floating dryly away.

There are very few innocent sentences in writing.

Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.

I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear

Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.

The greatest sin is appearing naive or old-fashioned so that somebody can give you a sort of a very cool arch smile and devastate you with one extraordinarily crafted line that puts kind of a hole in your pretentious balloon.

In fact, the likeliest reason why so many of us care so little about politics is that modern politicians makes us sad, hurt us deep down in ways that are hard even to name, much less talk about.