We are deserts

We are deserts but populated by tribes, flora and fauna. We pass our time in ordering these tribes, arranging them in other ways, getting rid of some and encouraging others to prosper… The desert, experimentation on oneself, is our only identity, our single chance for all the combinations which inhabit us (G. Deleuze and C. Parnet, Dialogues, Paris, Fiammarion, 1977).