But our eyes are different, what you see ain't what I see.
The concrete is better than the abstract. The detail is better than the commonplace. The sensual [through the senses] is better than the intellectual. The visual is better than the mental.
Even when it was easy, music's patterning shaped the emotions. . . Music proclaimed an orderly universe, promised a better place.
Revision plays a very large role in writing. Sometimes it seems to be all revision. And the longer I write, the more I revise-until it is completely right.
People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power
God. Twice I speak it. I say His name in a futile attempt to understand. "But it's not your job to understand. " That's me who answers. God never says anything. You think you're the only one he never answers? "Your job is to. . . " And I stop listening to me, because to put it bluntly, I tire me.
If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do.
And I don't think you'd have to kill -- assassinate -- too many vivisectors before you would see a marked decrease in the amount of vivisection going on. And I think for 5 lives, 10 lives, 15 human lives, we could save a million, 2 million, 10 million non-human animals.