Amorality

Is a man a sinner because he sins, or does he sin because he's a sinner?

Traditional Psychology

You have two extremes, you have pop psychology – celebrity therapists writing best sellers, getting on talk shows, and making some miserable couple weep on television – it’s kind of a pornography really.

And then on the other hand, you’ve got the experts – the psychologists – orthodox, authority figures – everything under control and supervised, examined under a bright light – examined to death; completely and utterly divorced from real life.

Serendipity

On the occurrence of a remarkable coincidence happening in my life or an extreme act of faith comes to be; it makes me feel that whatever mistakes I've made in the past, at that exact moment, I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be.

Illustration by Clayton Junior

Ineffable

There is always a tendency to lavish words upon what cannot be described, in the hope that some of them might stick – a little like throwing paint in the direction of The Invisible Man in order to make him out. 

~ Lionel Bailly, 2009, p. 98

There, but for the grace of God, go I

They’re dying. 

They have a disease that’s killing them – and wants him on his own, drinking. 

Drinking himself to death. 

It’s a terrible disease he has. 

And the irony of it is that it’s a disease that tells him that he hasn’t a disease. 

His body is telling him he’s dying – telling the world that he’s dying, and his brain is telling him to keep on drinking. 

And they don’t understand – sure what do they know!? 

It’s mad. It’s baffling. And cunning. 

But there’s hope.

- Glassland (2014)