He did not look up because he knew how senseless the landscape would appear. It takes energy to invest life with meaning, and at present this energy … - Paul Bowles

He did not look up because he knew how senseless the landscape would appear. It takes energy to invest life with meaning, and at present this energy was lacking.

But there was never any knowing or any certitude; the time to come always had more than one possible direction.

Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction that serves as an anesthetic.

Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really.