Quotes from Michael Ryan

But the truth enters at the end of life. It enters like oxygen into every cell and the madness it feeds there in some is only a lucid metaphor for something long burned to nothing, like a star. How do you get under your desire? How do you peel away each desire like ponderous clothes, one at a time, until what's underneath is known?

Culture becomes visible when we travel between " cultures " and when we look back in time to other " cultures " than our own.