“Maybe every essay automatically is in some way experimental — less an outline traveling toward a foregone conclusion than an unmapped quest that has sprung from the word 'question'.”

“Sometimes the essay is where we end up when everything that we know must change.”

“What happens when an essayist starts imagining things, making things up, filling in blank spaces, or — worse yet — leaving the blanks blank?”

“to travel faster than a speeding bullet is not much help if you and it are heading straight towards each other”

“Most reckless things are beautiful in some way, and recklessness is what makes experimental art beautiful, just as religions are beautiful because of the strong possibilities that they are founded on nothing.”

“And so we all matter - maybe less than a lot, but always more than none.”

“We all matter - maybe less then a lot but always more than none.”