The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.

Psychotics, say what you want about them, tend to make the first move.

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

I'm not putting any of this well. I am not and never have been an intellectual. I am not articulate, and the subjects that I am trying to describe and discuss are beyond my abilities. I am trying, however, the best I can, and will go back over this as carefully as possible when I am finished, and will make changes and corrections whenever I can see a way to make what I'm discussing clearer or more interesting without fabricating anything.

Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?" "I give." "You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog.

I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.

But there are all different kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talked about in the great outside world of winning and achieving and displaying.