An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible.
Life is a process of one goneness after another.
Words have a life; without response they die.
A family is everybody all together.
But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.
Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.