I never seem to find what I'm looking for, though. I suppose I feel, these days, too aware of schedules and things, to let myself get lost in the rain. Anyway, I came back home, and it was still raining, and as I was approaching the driveway of the house, and the front garden with its bushy flower bed, I caught a cooking smell from somewhere on the air. I don't know why, exactly, but it appealed to me as a Nagai Kafu moment.
Quentin S. CrispI have a bit of a struggle with some aspects of or forms of Buddhism, but Zen I find to be mainly congenial.
Quentin S. CrispThis strong sense of who I am that I've always had, since I was very young, is what makes me write.
Quentin S. CrispIf we do want to do that [ colonise space to survive, ], then vacuous materialism is not going to be enough for us.
Quentin S. Crisp