What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning..

Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition.

Give me a world, you have taken the world I was..

At least half of your mind is always thinking, I'll be leaving; this won't last. It's a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a….

You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? Fo….

Small, red, and upright he waited, gripping his new bookbag tight in one hand and touching a lucky penny inside his coat pocket with the other, while….

When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to do and don't really believe in..

You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying..

Philosophy - hopeless. Yet it gives me hope..

Consider incompleteness as a verb..

It takes practice to shave the skin off the light..

Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness..

We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves..

Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty..

Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world..

I emphasize the distinction between brackets and no brackets because it will affect your reading experience, if you will allow it. Brackets are excit….

I started to learn Greek when I was in high school, the last year of high school, by accident, because my teacher knew Greek and she offered to teach….

Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women..

Beauty spins and the mind moves. To catch beauty would be to understand how that impertinent stability in vertigo is possible. But no, delight need n….

Pleasure and pain at once register upon the lover, inasmuch as the desirability of the love object derives, in part, from its lack. To whom is it lac….

The beloved's innocence brutalizes the lover. As the singing of a mad person behind you on the train enrages you, its beautiful animal-like teeth shi….