Not judginess, but openness and curiosity are our proper business. I'm still trying to educate myself. I don't think you need to keep rehearsing your instincts. Far better to seek out models of what you can't do.

Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more.

The throat: how strange, that there is not more erotic emphasis upon it. For here, through this compound pulsing pillar, our life makes its leap into spirit, and in the other direction gulps down what it needs of the material world.

Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.

We are cruel enough without meaning to be.

The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started.

Writing doesn't require drive. It's like saying a chicken has to have drive to lay an egg.