A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.
Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort.
Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky.
Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard.
I was pushing myself to extremes in order to discover my many selves.
I do like to live in other people's homes. I enjoy being a guest. I am an inexpensive guest. When one lives in another's home he can enter into the psychic kingdom of that person.