When you’re lost, the smartest thing to do is stay put till you’re found, hollering if necessary.

Somewhere in the world there was a young woman with such splendid understanding that she’d see him entire, like a poem or story, and find his words so valuable after all that when he confessed his apprehensions she would explain why they were in fact the very things that made him precious to her... and to Western Civilization! There was no such girl, the simple truth being.

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What I’ve learned is that the muses’ decision to sing or not to sing is not based on the elevation of your moral purpose – they will sing or not, regardless.

Intellectual discussion, after all, is the real joy of the winter of life, when other pleasures have flown, as it were.

What a sentence, everything was wrong from the outset.

To realize that nothing makes any final difference is overwhelming; but if one goes no farther and becomes a saint, a cynic or a suicide on principle, one hasn’t reasoned completely. The truth is that nothing makes any difference, including that truth. Hamlet’s question is, absolutely, meaningless.

The nightsea journey may be absurd, but here we swim, will-we nill-we, against the flood, onward and upward, toward a shore that may not exist and couldn’t be reached if it did.

That clever folk care less for what ye think than why ye think it.

It’s easier and sociabler to talk technique than it is to make art.