“Miraculously recover or die. That's the extent of our cultural bandwidth for chronic illness.”

“A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.”

“A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.”

“Death is in truth an illness from which we recover”

“The task of genius is to keep the miracle alive, to live always in the miracle, to make the miracle more and more miraculous, to swear allegiance to nothing, but live only miraculously, think only miraculously, die miraculously.”

“Future civilizations - better civilizations than this one - are going to judge all men by the extent to which they've been artists. You and I, if some future archaeologist finds our works miraculously preserved in some city dump, will be judged by the quality of our creations. Nothing else about us will matter.”