If literary fiction is reduced to only middle-class families dealing only with middle-class angst, then it’s really finished as a force for grappling with the world.

But then life is never neat, it is made up of doors and trapdoors. You move down baroque corridors, and even when you think you know which door to open, you still need to have the courage to choose.

If man had a sense of proportion, he would die of shame.

Hades is evolved to the highest state of simplicity.

Do not think to swim below. The ocean is already pushing into ears, sinuses, temples, the softness of eyes, and the harpsichord strings behind the kneecaps.

She saw the deepness that was at the edge of France and it made the beach under her feel like a ledge on a cliff.

The moment passed — but the darkness is so dark, and the pain is so painful. – But I accept whatever He gives and I give whatever He takes.

The most necessary learning is that which unlearns evil.

All thinking, knowing, perception, space-time, occur in consciousness. You are a non-local consciousness. The world is in you.

Domestic abuse is wrong, but domestic retribution is okay.

Art is the absence of fear.

You must choose a road for yourself.

For me, creating music is a completely natural thing. I've been doing so, and I will continue doing so. I record almost everything I play at home.

I believe there are unidentified flying objects, I'm just not sure who's driving.

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.