And history becomes legend and legend becomes history.

Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.

Poetry is a religion with no hope.

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.

Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.

Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.

Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it's a miracle that we don't dissolve in our baths.