Anathematization of the world is not an adequate response to the world.

The self cannot be escaped, but it can be, with ingenuity and hard work, distracted.

The task is not so much to solve problems as to propose questions.

We are what we have been told about ourselves. We are the sum of the messages we have received. The true messages. The false messages.

Endings are elusive, middles are nowhere to be found, but worst of all is to begin, to begin, to begin.

Yes, success is everything. Failure is more common. Most achieve a sort of middling thing, but fortunately one's situation is always blurred, you never know absolutely quite where you are.

The writer is one who, emnbarking upon a task, does not know what to do.