Beauty Is Almost No Longer Possible If

There Is A Great Deal Of Pain In Life And Perhaps The Only Pain That Can Be Avoided Is The Pain That Comes From Trying To Avoid Pain.

Few Books Today Are Forgivable. Black On Canvas, Silence On The Screen, An Empty White Sheet Of Paper Are Perhaps Feasible.

There Are Good Reasons For Being Obedient, But Being Unable To Be Disobedient Is Not One Of The Best Reasons.

We Are Bemused And Crazed Creatures, Strangers To Our True Selves, To One Another, And To The Spiritual And Material World - Mad, Even, From An Ideal Standpoint We Can Glimpse But Not Adopt.

Madness Need Not Be All Breakdown. It May Also Be Break-through. It Is Potential Liberation And Renewal As Well As Enslavement And Existential Death.