Written from May 2022 – March 2024

1. To love is to live dangerously, for it exposes you to inevitable suffering. The choice is loneliness or pain. There is no clear answer.
2. Life is a commercial—one is either a consumer or an unwilling participant.
3. A knife to the heart: The suffering of existence.
4. Whosoever says that they are happy is playing a practical joke on themselves. For they simply are not privy to the wellspring of unhappiness within them which is always, deeper, darker, and unconscious. Yet, happy is he who is cognizant of his misery and suffering—this is not a contradiction, it is the paradox of existence.
5. The mystic, the daemoniac, and the seer are all more sane, rational, and grounded in truth than the American who has swallowed the pernicious lie of consumerism, jingoism, and social convention. Far better is it to live in a tomb among rats than a society among vultures.
6. Visions of angels and demons, ethereal forces and spirits, gypsies, nomads, and expressive artistic displays of the valences and interpretations of existence and the suffering thereof—for such is merely a quotidian stroll through my mind whereof I alone hold the key!
7. The pain of being let down is hurtful; but the suffering of being disappointed in yourself is excruciating.
8. The visionary actualizes his recondite ideal—the world sees not the value. “I have come too soon,” says the visionary. As such, he dies unknown, castigated, and ridiculed: The life of a prophet.
9. With a heavy heart and longing eyes do I offer myself up on the alter of Love. Oh cruel Aphrodite! Wherefore do I continue this cycle of madness?
10. For a relationship to flourish one must have respectable boundaries. Closeness when desired and separation when necessary. The house cat: man’s best companion!
11. Rich Boca moms driving recklessly, unawares and on their cell phone, past the speed limit on US1 in their Mercedes G-Wagon: a vibe.
12. When inquisitiveness is diminished, exuberance for life runs dry. O’ Ponce de Leon! Curiosity: the Fountain of Youth.