Ideas came swarming through her, and like many people who labour in the obsession of solitude, she lacked the detachment to challenge them.

And always Melbourne, Melbourne, Melbourne, over and over the same photo in glaring greens and reds, of a tram, huffy, blunderous, manoeuvring itself with pole…

'Crap,' said Janet. 'He was a whinger and he wrote it down. That's not poetry.'

'It's rather like a Poe story, isn't it,' said Patrick luxuriously, unfocusing his eyes. 'A person sees the chance of a better life passing by, and he makes as…

It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us…

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments. Ch…

To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone.