Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights; the accumulations of a lifetime gather there

I didn't want to be in the teeming mass of the working class.[...] I didn't want to live and die in the same place with only a week at the seaside in between. I dreamed of escape - but what is terrible about industrialisation is that it makes escape necessary. In a system that generates masses, individualism is the only way out. But then what happens to community - to society?

Walls protect and walls limit. It is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.

People being encouraged to make up their own minds and think for themselves is so important. This world talks endlessly about freedom of choice, but we've never been [nothing] more than a nation of robots. Everybody is seduced by corporate culture.

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.

I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.

A bridge is a meeting place . . . a possibility, a metaphor.