I'm waiting for the time when I fail - because we all fail - and I'm ready, I'll take up carpentry.
The very concept of solid ground is a myth. The galaxy itself is adrift.
When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't.
It's not that photography recaptures the world you have been in; more that it creates a new one: photographs are like Post-It Notes reminding us of the deep architectonic forms of space and thought.
From time to time it has struck me that as a writer, I've somehow managed to live my life as I had long ago dreamt of doing, based on the Tintin paradigm: on my toes, travelling, senses attentuated, everything just adventure and exploration, curiosity and problem-solving.
And I come to realise that all my small todays, the way I act, will lead into my tomorrows.
Everything comes to nothing in the end, I suppose. Or at least, nothing happens exactly the way we imagine it.
I remember my mother and father arguing about light bulbs because my father thought he could save money by putting 25-watt bulbs instead of 60-watt bulbs and my mother was trying to explain to him that her children needed to learn to read so that they could go to college. He couldn't see that.
My age now, like my age 20 years ago, marks the year in which I was born. That's all.
Barack Obama's discovering what a nightmare dealing with hostage problems is - a discovery previously made by Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, i don't see a lot of room for change in American policy.
Oh, the secret life of man and woman--dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest.