Life produces a different taste each time you take it.

I am beginning to feel the drunkenness that this agitated, tumultuous life plunges you into. With such a multitude of objects passing before my eyes, I’m getting dizzy. Of all the things that strike me, there is none that holds my heart, yet all of them together disturb my feelings, so that I forget what I am and who I belong to.

If variety is the spice of life, then my life must be one of the spiciest you ever heard of. A curry of a life. -Paul Child

Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.

Like madness is the glory of this life.

Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.

Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.

You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life.

Sex must be mixed with tears, laughter, words, promises, scenes, jealousy, envy, all the spices of fear, foreign travel, new faces, novels, stories, dreams, fantasies, music, dancing, opium, wine.

I was filled with such a dangerous delicious intoxication that I could have walked straight off the steps into the air, climbing on the strength of my own drunkeness into the stars. And the intoxication, as I knew even then, was the recklessness of infinite possibility.

Whatever you fear will happen to you, booze will make it happen.

Life is incredibly contingent and unexpected.

Life…is a wonder. It is a sky laden with clouds of contradictions.

But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.