A phenomenon must be to some extent comprehensible to be perceived at all.

Addiction is a disease of exposure. Doctors and nurses, for instance, have a high addiction rate.

There's a boy across the river with an ass like a peach; alas I was no swimmer and lost my Clementine.

The purpose of my writing is to expose and arrest Nova Criminals.

It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to produce very definite results. Paintings were originally formulae to make what is painted happen. Art is not an end in itself, any more than Einstein's matter-into-energy formulae is an end in itself. Like all formulae, art was originally FUNCTIONAL, intended to make things happen, the way an atom bomb happens from Einstein's formulae.

My relationship with cats has saved me from a deadly and pervasive ignorance.

Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time.