Influences

“Lord, make me chaste, but not yet.”

“No worthy problem is ever solved in the plane of its original conception.”

“The activity of God, which surpasses all others in blessedness, must be contemplation.”

“In Kyoto, hearing the cuckoo, I long for Kyoto.”

“There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.”

“Words are concepts, but concepts are lines—number systems attached to a particular dimension of the multiplicities (strata, molecular chains, lines of flight or rupture, circles of convergence, etc.).”

“On ne peut penser et écrire qu’assis (G. Flaubert). Here I have got you, you nihilist! A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.”

“Soyons vrais, même si nous sommes laids.”

“Trouve avant de chercher.”

“Regarder, c’est-à-dire oublier le nom des choses que l’on voit.”

“Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.”

“Now I am terrified at the Earth—it is that calm and patient; it grows such sweet things out of such corruptions.”