Everything should be understood, and anything can be transformed - that is the modern view.

...what I write is smarter than I am. Because I can rewrite it.

Intelligence is not necessarily a good thing, something to value or cultivate. It's more like a fifth wheel - necessary or desirable when things break down. When things go well, it's better to be stupid ... Stupidity is as much a value as intelligence.

Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading.

Mad people = People who stand alone and burn. I'm attracted to them because they give me permission to do the same.

taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response. Nothing is more decisive. There is taste in people, visual taste, taste in emotion - and there is taste in acts, taste in morality. Intelligence, as well, is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Art is not consciousness per se, but rather its antidote- evolved from within consciousness itself.