What are the units of ontology really that I should be a part of a whole, but not be, in all my awareness, chiefly the whole unto itself?

Perhaps, there is no such person who can be called truly free, but only those who can be deemed so by comparison.

Writing creatively is a process of self-consumption that requires one to dive deeply inside of oneself with no guarantee of reemergence.

The lights became stars, which became streaks in the grayspace, and then networks of fading shimmers

Light and Dark: each was unaware that the other existed.

At one moment, his eyes sparkled in the light and in the next they were enshrouded in shadow. What connected those bands of light and dark? Could they indeed have been distinct entities?

The arrow of time obscures memory of both past and future circumstance with innumerable fallacies, the least trivial of which is perception.

Of what use was memory anyway than as a template for one's most reassuring self-deceptions!

All high mathematics serves to do is to beget higher mathematics.

The temporal heart resonates at whispersFrom a Truth overarchingOf whose countenanceTimeless Intellect yearns vainly to fathom

Etchings endure, But not in SandMeanings Collide To Unresolved FragmentsCodes fizzle to StaticThey are not lostBut UnheardNever lostFading slowly to SilenceBy infinite degrees

But what use is the unicorn to you if your intellect doesn't believe in it?

Often I Wish I Werea potato.Eyes openedin all directions.Unafraid of the cold earth.The differencebetween life and deathfor somebody.

For the analyst it is a source of never-ending astonishment how comparatively well a person can function with the core of himself not participating.

It took a while for her to figure out she could run but when she did she was long gone, Long gone..

The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships.

To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.

Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain?

Successful leaders don't start out asking, 'What do I want to do?' They ask, 'What needs to be done?' Then they ask, 'Of those things that would make a difference, which are right for me?'

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.

I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody.