What I’m saying is that you don’t get to the truly creative place unless you find the dangerous idea. And once again, that’s like standing at the mouth of the tomb, in vigil, waiting for the shock of the risen Christ, the shock of the imagination, the astonishing idea.*
Nick Cave

If I want to be secure, that is protected from the flux of life, I am wanting to be separate from life.**
Alan Watts

Finally, we have arrived
at the place of no surprises –
People, activities, ideas, finances –
But we know it’s not good for us,
It’s only half of the story,
The other part is adventure.

*Nick Cave and Seán O’Hagan’s Faith, Hope and Carnage;
**Oliver Burkeman’s The Antidote.