You can treat experience as a set of surprises on which to exercise your quirky self.
Are you here to experience life or think about it?
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
All writing begins in the sea of experience.
Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.
Depression, if it's an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury.
In my actual imaginative contact with life, I am vastly more responsive to beauty than to horror--indeed, I never experience real cosmic horror except in infrequent nightmares. However, when I come to record my various imaginative experiences, I generally find that only the horror items have any uniqueness or originality. Others have seen the same beautiful things that I have seen, & have sung them more nobly.
the biggest threat to the religious experience may well come from organized religion itself.
And realizing there is no such thing as the Black experience. Time and events allow for change on both sides.
Most of the people dishing out judgment have no working experience of the theatre, have not written a professional play, a sketch, or even a joke; have never worked in a theatre, taken an acting class, or published any extended piece of work. They are creative virgins; everything they know about theatre is book-learned and second-hand.
