What was that sound? That rustling noise? It could be heard in the icy North, where there was not one leaf left upon one tree, it could be heard in the South, where the crinoline skirts lay deep in th...
What was it like in there? Inside a daisy? My answer: Like a cathedral made of mathematics and honey.
What mattered to Abu was the music of the sentence. 'A shadow does not belong to the object that casts it.' To Abu, it was a little poem. And in general, it was the poetics, the music of things that t...
Western civilization was declining too fast for comfort, but too slowly to be very exciting.
Wasn’t there a surplus in life of the boring, the repetitive, the mediocre, and the tame? Shouldn’t she be glad, grateful for this intrusion of the unexpected and unexplained?
Wasn’t it made clear that civilization is not an end in itself but a theater or gymnasium in which the evolving individual finds facilities for practice?
Time brought along its secretary, memory, and space brought its brat, loneliness.
This is the room where Jezebel frescoed her eyelids with history's tragic glitter
There is only one serious question. And that is: Who knows how to make love stay? Answer me that and I will tell you whether or not to kill yourself. Answer me that and I will ease your mind about the...
There is a sense in which a painted stick is a stick in bloom. This stick points to the hidden face of God. Sometimes it points to you.
The uncle ignored Gracie's father. 'In any event,' he went on, 'when brewers combine hops with yeast and grain and water, and allow the mixture to ferment -- to rot -- it magically produces an elixir...
The theater of man is not always 'amusing', but it always theater, and theater can be marveled at even when its content is somber and harsh. You're acquainted with Greek tragedy?
The most important thing is love, said Leigh-Cheri. I know that now. There’s no point in saving the world if it means losing the moon.
The most important thing is love, said Leigh-Cheri. I know that now. There's no point in saving the world if it means losing the moon.Leigh-Cheri sent that message to Bernard through his attorney. The...
The most important thing in life is style. That is the style of one s existence the characteristic mode of one s actions is basically ultimately what matters. For if man defines himself by doing then...
The kingdom of formal ideas will always be a weak neighbor to the kingdom of thrills
The difference between love and logic is that in the eyes of a lover, a toad can be a prince, whereas in the analysis of a logistician, the lover would have to prove that the toad was a prince, an ent...
The Haight was awash in Christian charity. These kids, simultaneously jubilant and introspective, were practicing what their elders preached. The Haight was the New Testament: animated, activated, bro...
So, even for those of us who can't personally witness Salome's dance, the fifth veil surely will fall. It will fall at the moment of our death. As we lie there, helpless, beyond distraction, electrici...
Smoking cigarettes is as intimate as we can become with fire without immediate excruciation.