You have to learn everything you can, Archie… and then you have to forget it, and what you can't forget will create the foundation of your work.
Density, immensity, complexity.
La petite mort and la grande mort within ten seconds of each other—coming and going in the space of three short breaths.
…the torment of being alive in a single body was that at any given moment you had to be on one road only…