I'm clearer now in what I want to say, and I know better how to say just that.

First, he says, you have to go out into the world. This is not a simple matter of going outside one's door. No, that is simply going out. That's what one does when one is on the way to the store to buy a loaf of bread, some cheese, and a bottle of wine. When one goes out into the world, one is shedding preconceptions of past paths and ideas of past paths, and trying to move freely through an unsubstantiated and new geography.

It is at the heart of our human enterprise, that is to say, at the heart of society, to allow consensus a power it ought not to have.

That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!

We tire differently if we love or love not.

I believe my friends think I'm funny. All the books are full of humor. Maybe it is a quiet sort of humor that masquerades as not-much-at-all. It is certainly easy to miss.

I begin with an image of some sort, just as if you saw something out of a window, and then went to the window to see what it was.