Life and Existence

The Child is father of the Man.

A sense sublime

On that best portion of a good man’s life,

For oft, when on my couch I lie

Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,

As an experience, madness is terrific … and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about.

I read the book of Job last night. I don’t think God comes well out of it.

The scratching of pimples on the body of the bootboy at Claridges.

I have lost friends, some by death … others through sheer inability to cross the street.

I have lost friends, some by death … others through sheer inability to cross the street.

On or about December 1910 human nature changed.

Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Examine for a moment an ordinary mind on an ordinary day.

Which of us has not remained forever prison-pent? Which of us is not forever a stranger and alone?

Tell them I’ve had a wonderful life.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.

The world is everything that is the case.

Time is the longest distance between two places.

Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;

Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;

Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.