ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars

I couldn't feel so I learned to touch.

To have [Adam's Cohen] microscopic attention to my work was really a great privilege.

I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.

What is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate. Thus new systems are forced on the world by men who simply cannot bear the pain of living with what is. Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique. If Hitler had been born in Nazi Germany he wouldn't have been content to enjoy the atmosphere.

And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either.

There are a few things that deal with passion. There's Prozac.