I have to live in the richest, deepest, most productive way I can

Dangerously well’— what an irony is this: it expresses precisely the doubleness, the paradox, of feeling ‘too well

There is certainly a universal and unconscious propensity to impose a rhythm even when one hears a series of identical sounds at constant intervals... We tend to hear the sound of a digital clock, for example, as "tick-tock, tick-tock" - even though it is actually "tick tick, tick tick.

... the body, normally, is never in question: our bodies are beyond question, or perhaps beneath question - they are simply, unquestionably, there. This unquestionability of the body, is, for Wittgenstein, the start and basis of all knowledge and certainty.

Waking consciousness is dreaming – but dreaming constrained by external reality

there are other senses -­ secret senses, sixth senses, if you will -­ equally vital, but unrecognized, and unlauded.

It really is a very odd business that all of us, to varying degrees, have music in our heads.