To learn a vocation, you also have to learn the frauds it practices and the promises it breaks.

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.

Awakening in the morning returns us to life, and to awareness of death.

After a moment of shrinking back, we domesticate the grotesque.

If the world would apologize, I might consider a reconciliation.

Yawns are hard to refute.

Violence stops thought. Hence its popularity as a pain-killer.