“A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.”| The Marginalian
“Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax. There is no point whatever in making plans for a future which you will never be able to enjoy.”| The Marginalian
“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.”| The Marginalian
“The true and durable path into and through experience involves being true … to your own solitude, true to your own secret knowledge.”| The Marginalian
“The impulse to create begins — often terribly and fearfully — in a tunnel of silence. Every real poem is the breaking of an existing silence.”| The Marginalian
“Andersen had the ability to articulate desires petty and profound and make them into transcendent tales.”| The Marginalian