And so, these are the things, the exploration of which, the singing about of which, makes us human beings. The exploration of the universe of the unseen is the business of human beings.

What is needed is a spirit of boundary dissolution, between individuals, between classes, sexual orientations, rich and poor, man and woman, intellectual and feeling toned types. If this can happen, then we will make a new world. And if this doesn't happen, nature is fairly pitiless and has a place for us in the shale of this planet, where so many have preceded us.

Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to make sense of.

At the interface of the say-able and the unsay-able is the novel, the new, the never before seen, said or done. And that's what I think it's important to try and bring out, ideas. Because I think we are the animals that bring back ideas.

Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language.

You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told.

History was an incredibly damaging experience, and now it's over . . . in a sense.