RIP to an amazing writer and thinker.

For some reason the one line that stuck in my memory after all these years (having devoured his oeuvre in my early 20's, more than 20 years ago), is this:

> "Vertigo is something other than the fear of falling... it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves."

(Forgive the paraphrasing, it's from memory.)