"Don't you know that I'm afraid of you ( Read more... )

"One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her."

"From a social standpoint the man of science does not exist," he smiled.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

-- William S. Burroughs

A nursery rhyme has been playing itself through his mind all day. The madding kind of thing that will not let go, that stands mockingly outside the apse of the conscious mind and makes faces at the rational being inside.

thronging the bridge and the quay along both banks of the river, a crowd of many thousands accompanied the spectacle with ah's and oh's and even some "long live" 's --although the king had ascended his throne more than thirty-eight year before and the high point of his popularity was long since behind him. Fireworks can do that.

"Many people believe that there is a mathematical correlation between sin, penance, and redemption. More sin, more penance, and so forth. Our own point has always been that there is no connection. All the variables are independent. You do penance not because you have sinned but because it is your destiny. You are redeemed not through doing penance ( Read more... )

Von Igelfeld closed his eyes and thought: I'm in a house of God, but who is he? Where is he, this person he had always addressed as God but who had never spoken back to him, ever. He was not sure about the existence of God, but he had always been convinced that if he did exist, he would be the God of Mediterranean Christianity, not the cold, hard ( Read more... )

And going on, we come to things like evil, and beauty, and hope ( Read more... )

QOTD:
If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein

One can't be sad when one wakes up to a Wittgenstein quote.

He hates you, ya know.