What's happening is that each year our old flat earth of conventional reason becomes less and less adequate to handle the experiences we have and this is creating widespread feelings of topsy-turviness. As a result we're getting more and more people in irrational areas of thought... occultism, mysticism, drug changes and the like... because they feel the inadequacy of classical reason to handle what they know are real experiences.

I think present-day reason is an analogue of the flat earth of the medieval period. If you go too far beyond it you're presumed to fall off, into insanity. And…

A rush of wind comes furiously now, down from the mountaintop. 'The ancient Greeks,' I say, 'who were the inventors of classical reason, knew better than to us…

You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's goi…

Flaner est une science, c'est la gastronomie de l'?il. Se promener, c'est vegeter; flaner, c'est vivre... Flaner, c'est jouir, c'est recueillir des traits d'es…

New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.

Sundance is weird. The movies are weird - you actually have to think about them when you watch them.