it's impossible I should have a mind and I have one

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion, art and craft, good housekeeping, living.

When the object is perceived as particular and unique and not merely the member of a family, when it appears independent of any general notion and detached from the sanity of a cause, isolated and inexplicable in the light of ignorance, then and only then may it be a source of enchantment.

Imagination at wit's end spreads its sad wings.

The search for the means to put an end to things, an end to speech, is what enables the discourse to continue.

it's impossible I should have a mind and I have one