Quotations from Myself

Like Norman Mailer’s “Advertisements for Myself”

Interesting image, huh, with the shadow on the wall. Taken by a friend in NYC circa summer 2019.

*These are just some of the best (in my humble opinion) quotations from my own journal writing over the past weeks. Call them Tales of Existential Angst.

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1. “But wasn’t that what an Artist essentially was: A selfish, needy person who felt they had something “important” to say, and who demanded from the world an undue attention, thinking that their “work” is so necessary, so crucial, so profound that everyone should stop what they’re doing and read, look, think about what they’ve done? Then again: That was only one side of being an “artist,” of course. There was also aesthetic beauty and emotional depth and spiritual solace and the ability—occasionally—to change someone’s perspective, maybe even their life. And it was this desire coupled with the selfish one—the combination of the two—which ironically created the best results.”

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2. “None of this, again, mattered. Nothing at all mattered, really. Only sight. Holy vision. Spiritual observation. This one Eternal Present Moment (EPM). That was all that genuinely, actually existed anyway, right? The past was gone, the future had not yet come, and there was only a continually recurring, effervescent NOW.”