I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humil… - Madeleine L'Engle

There's more to life than just the things that can be explained by encyclopedias and facts. Facts alone are not adequate.

All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.

I endeavor To hold the I as one only for the cloud
Of which I am a fragment, yet to which I'm vowed
To be responsible. Its light against my face
Reveals the witness of the stars, each in its place
Singing, each compassed by the rest,
The many joined to one, the mightiest to the least.
It is so great a thing to be an infinitesimal part
of this immeasurable orchestra the music bursts the heart,
And from this tiny plosion all the fragments join:
Joy orders the disunity until the song is one.