True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance

Human hunger birthed the Civlize, but human hunger killed it too.

Secrets affect you more than you’d think. You lie to keep them hidden. You steer talk away from them. You worry someone’ll discover yours and tell the world. You think you are in charge of the secret, but isn’t it the secret who’s actually using you?

I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going.

I'm not from a milieu where high-register language or philosophical ideas were welcome.

What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.

War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.