I get along quite well with someone only when he is at his lowest point and has neither the desire nor the strength to restore his habitual illusions.

- Emil Cioran, The trouble with being born

Iekeliene Stange in Vogue Italia February 2007, by Richard Burbridge

Louis Carlos Bernal, Recámara de Mis Padres, Phoenix, Arizona, 1978

Adam Riches

“A thinker sees his own actions as attempts to find out something through experimentation and inquiry. Success and failure are above all for him always answers.”

—The Gay Science, §41 (edited excerpt).

People gathered around lava, Iceland

Elizabeth Magill, Oncoming, 2006