Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot know that we have failed to see it.

You need so much energy and encouragement to write that if someone says something negative, some of that energy goes.

And what is 'art'? - a firestorm rushing through Time, arising from no visible source and conforming to no principles of logic or causality.

The denial of language is a suicidal one and we pay for it with our own lives.

[Emily] Dickinson, our supreme poet of inwardness.

I believe that any form of art is a species of exploration and transgression. ... Art by its nature is a transgressive act, and artists must accept being punished for it. The more original and unsettling their art, the more devastating the punishment.

If you're living with a scientist, you see the world differently than you do with a humanist. It's in some ways very subtle, the differences in perceiving reality.