Easier Seeing Than Seen

As frightened as the eyes of dogs and horses...

I thought I was a genius when I was worried about being different from others — I knew I was one when I became glad of being different.

Represent visits by "poor" relations to rich relatives as "driveway visits" — as that is as far as hospitality is extended.

Hearing is perhaps fifty percent listening.

Let's make literature popular — not make "popular literature."

Drowning men die of boredom — their lives pass before them!

Many women languish — dreaming of the Prince and afraid to kiss the toad.

Consider that the cocoon is always uglier than the butterfly.

Poor Bodhisattva —
Sitting on the
Bodi-seat
All day long —
Tough shit!
— Idiot—


Like the man who thought that chickens were hard and smooth, because he'd never seen one out of its egg.

I remember Elgeti's note in the back of Borges' Labyrinths:
"... on the absense of access; Creativity; the fumblings of a multidirected mind."

From page 0000000 of Double or Nothing by Raymond Federman: "Now some people might say that this situation is not very encouraging ... but one must reply that it is not meant to encourage those who say that."

Orderliness is merely an attempt to arrest movement!