There is no lie in war or preparation of war that can't be defended.
Any assault on the borders of perception is going to seem rash at first.
why something and not nothing? why music and not noise?
It's true that some of us become better writers by living long enough. But this is also how we become worse writers. The trick is to die in between.
You live in a tower that soars to heaven and goes unpunished by God.
No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.