The goal is the same: life itself; and the price is the same; life itself.
I know I am making the choice most dangerous to an artist in valuing life above art.
Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.
The deadliest blow the enemy of the human soul can strike is to do fury honor. . . . Official acceptance is the one unmistakable symptom that salvation is beaten again, and is the one surest sign of fatal misunderstanding, and is the kiss of Judas.
Some people get where they hope to in this world. Most of us don't.
All of consciousness is shifted from the imagined, the revisive, to the effort to perceive simply the cruel radiance of what is