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

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

And I sat there getting drunker and drunker and more in love and more in love...And you can never touch a girl in the same way more than once, twice, or another number of times however much you may wish to hold, wrap, or otherwise fix her hand, or look, or some other quality, or incident, known to you previously.

The not-knowing is crucial to art, is what permits art to be made. Without the scanning process engendered by not-knowing, without the possibility of having the mind move in unanticipated directions, there would be no invention.

The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day.

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

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