Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate.

Death hides within every religion. And at any time it can flash forth-not with healing in its wings but with poison, with that which wounds.

You have to be with other people, he thought. In order to live at all. I mean before they came here I could stand it... But now it has changed. You can't go back, he thought. You can't go from people to nonpeople." - J.R. Isidore

It's easy to win. Anybody can win.

And of course, in my writing, there is the constant theme of music, love of, preoccupation with, music. Music is the single thread making my life into a coherency.

There is evil! It's actual, like cement. I can't believe it. I can't stand it. Evil is not a view ... it's an ingredient in us. In the world. Poured over us, filtering into our bodies, minds, hearts, into the pavement itself.

Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally.