Is it possible for somebody to dislike the activity of thought and still be extremely impatient to find out what the truth is? This is too often the case. Judge, for example, the fact that schools are always pressing on us ‘opinions’ and ‘conclusions’ and that they even scour poetry for such [...]

The Neitzschean attempt to become identified with one’s highest moments creates unpardonable stress. The mind should be regarded as a dimension of reality (like time or space), not capable of appropriation, only of being navigated. If we are not appalled by the fact of sleep, by the fact that we are sometimes totally unthinking, we [...]

“I recently composed my own epitaph, something to be solemnly engraved upon my headstone.  It shall say, simply:  “What the hell was that all about?!” 

Whirlpool in Porcelain
2005