Jon

“The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.”
― Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

“A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling/Repetition

“I take this continent with me into the grave.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

“I looked at her, with her hair spilled out on the pillows and the warmth of her body warming mine. And I thought, god-dang, if this ain't a heck of a way to be in bed with a pretty woman. The two of you arguing about murder, and threatening each other, when you're supposed to be in love and you could be doing something pretty nice. And then I thought, well, maybe it ain't so strange after all. Maybe it's like this with most people, everyone doing pretty much the same thing except in a different way. And all the time they're holding heaven in their hands.”
― Jim Thompson, Pop. 1280