The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.

In the distance, the gestures of animals look human, the gestures of human beings bestial.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.

Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind.

The glance embroiders in joy, knits in pain, and sews in boredom. When indifferent, the eye takes stills, when interested, movies. Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.

The ring always believes that the finger lives for it.