Status Updates From Moon Palace

«The true purpose of art was not to create beautiful objects, he discovered. It was a method of understanding, a way of penetrating the world and finding one's place in it, and whatever aesthetic qualities an individual canvas might have were almost an incidental by-product of the effort to engage oneself in this struggle, to enter into the thick of things.»

«We find ourselves only by looking to what we're not. You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.»

«She's someone who follows her impulses, but those impulses are also a form of knowledge.»

«I was desperate for a certainty, and I was prepared to do anything to find it.»

«I had thought I was acting with courage, but it turned out that I was merely demonstrating the most abject form of cowardice: rejoicing in my contempt for the world, refusing to look things squarely in the face.»