Man oscillates continuously between wishing to remain exactly as he is and wishing to become something, anything else.
Sep 162014
Seeming
Religion, art, taste, and other delusions.
Sep 152014
Sanity is correspondence at the expense of coherence. Madness is coherence at the expense of correspondence.
Aug 112014
One can achieve certain intense aesthetic experiences only at the cost of missing out on others entirely.
Aug 082014
Exceptionally bad art sometimes acquires a constituency, the way famous murderers attract marriage proposals.
Aug 072014
Art corrupts politics more than politics corrupts art.
Jul 142014
Monotheism is the most conspicuous failure of the principle of parsimony.
Jul 092014
You can smoke all you like in the movies, but you can’t cough without dying.
Jun 132014
People praise sincerity in art because they cannot bear the idea that an artist can imitate their deepest thoughts and feelings while remaining unmoved by them.
Jun 112014
Boredom is more terrible than misery.
May 282014
Religion without doctrine and ritual is nothing, or as we now say, spirituality.