Van Gogh

June 12th, 2009 § 1

Over Rhone (section)

… just as we take a train to get to Tarascon or Rouen, we take death to reach a star. We cannot get to a star while we are alive any more than we can take the train when we are dead. So to me it seems possible that cholera, tuberculosis and cancer are the celestial means of locomotion. —Van Gogh

Roger Ebert’s Journal


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