Anathematization of the world is not an adequate response to the world.
How can you be alienated without first having been connected?
The death of God left the angels in a strange position.
And I sat there getting drunker and drunker and more in love and more in love.
I believe that because I had obtained a wife who was made up of wife-signs (beauty, charm, softness, perfume, cookery) I had found love.
Maybe writing can't be taught, but editing can be taught—prayer, fasting and self-mutilation.