Somewhere between fear and sex passion is. The way there is sudden. The way out is worse. - Jeanette Winterson

Bask in it. In spite of what the monks say, you can meet God without getting up early. You can meet God lounging in the pew. The hardship is a man-made device because man cannot exist without passion.

They were letting off fireworks down at the waterfront, the sky exploding in grenades of colour. Whatever it is that pulls the pin, that hurls you past the boundaries of your own life into a brief and total beauty - even for a moment - it is enough.

If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much in use for it.