It receives you when you come and dismisses you when you go.

This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.

If this is what you came for, then I didn't send for you. Kafka (note to himself in journal)

Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you.

You are so vulnerably haunting. Your eeriness is terrifyingly irresistible.

"Don't you want to join us?" I was recently asked by an acquaintance when he ran across me alone after midnight in a coffeehouse that was already almost deserted. "No, I don't," I said.

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.