You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence.
He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is also detestable.
We owe much to the fruitful meditation of our sages, but a sane view of life is, after all, elaborated mainly in the kitchen.
All roads are long which lead to one's heart's desire.
The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
I was constantly watching myself, my secret self, as dependent on my actions as my own personality