Quality tends to fan out like waves. The Quality job he didn't think anyone was going to see was seen, and the person who feels it is a little bit better because of it, and is likely to pass that feeling onto others, and in that way the Quality tends to keep going.

Now the stream of our common consciousness seems to be obliterating its own banks, losing its central direction and purpose, flooding the lowlands, disconnecting and isolating the highlands and to no particular purpose other than the wasteful fulfillment of its own internal momentum

Between the subject and the object lies the value.

If your mind is truly, profoundly stuck, then it might be much better off than when it was loaded with ideas

You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally.

For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.

Definitions are the foundation of reason. You can't reason without them.