God's lonely man

Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches.

“Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object of life is not prosperity as we are made to believe, but the maturity of the human soul.”

- Aleksandr Isaevič Solženicyn

Masahisa Fukase, Ravens, 1977

Stephen Gill - The pillar

“One should test oneself to see if one is destined for independence and command, and to do it at the right time. One should not dodge one’s own tests, though they may be the most dangerous game one could play, and should be taken before no witness or judge but oneself. One must know how to conserve oneself, for it is the hardest test of independence.”

—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §41 (edited excerpt).

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

- Sigmund Frued

Killed on the Way to the Garage, Sicily, 1976.

The streets were dark with something more than night.

At the Horn & Hardart on 14th Street, NYC, 1949.

Wine comes in at the mouth
And love comes in at the eye;
That's all we shall know for truth
Before we grow old and die.
I lift the glass to my mouth,
I look at you, and sigh.