Writings like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.

I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for other purposes

Writings like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.

Everyone loves a mysterious country.

After all why should our goal be the reinstatement of an illusory 'exact' relationship between events and words? If you probe in the ashes you will never learn anything about the fire: by the time the ashes can be handled the meaning has passed on. Every adventure is a cup so empty it can be drunk from again and again and again. Every adventure is so perfect it verges on silence.

Perception of a state is not the state.

Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we realize that meaning is an act. We must repossess it, instant to instant in our lives.