Mistrust makes life difficult. Trust makes it risky.

Disappointment proves that expectations were mistaken.

I cling to depression, thinking it a form of truth.

When sages commend excess, Desire is sick.

Let's have some good, old-fashioned literature, with a virgin and a moral.

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

Freedom is the moment between sleep and waking before selfhood and the world return.