We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals. - Saul Bellow

Some big insect flew in and began walking on the table. I don’t know what insect it was, but it was brown, shining, and rich in structures. In the city the big universal chain of insects gets thin, but where there’s a leaf or two it’ll be represented.

I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm. I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

Once you had read the Psychopathology of Everyday Life, you knew that everyday life was psychopathology.