I’ve been updating eljay a lot. Daily thoughts, like daily Chinese street food.

Saints die but wisepeople live.

A person who plays the same act with no attention to audience not only has the honesty of a saint but also that of a dumbass.

We’re doomed to learn.

Poor writing should be a sin.

The soul is a lone, mortified being. The only way to cure it of its mortification is to prime it–meaning to expose it to constant mortification, so that it could finally be free.