It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell the roses. When someone says You never stand in the same river twice someone else has already replied There is nothing new under the sun. In the mind's arithmetic, 1 plus -1 equals 2. Truths are not quantities but scripts: Become for a moment the mind in which this is true.

Sophistication is upscale conformity.

Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system.

When I am trying to write I turn on music so I can hear what is keeping me from hearing.

Who breaks the thread, the one who pulls, the one who holds on?

Anger has been ready to be angry.

It is the empty seats that listen most raptly.