Sunday, February 24, 2013

gray faces

“My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.” ― William Golding
The crystal ship is being filled, A thousand pills, a thousand thrills
A million ways to spend your time, When we get back, I'll drop a line
“what you were.......will not happen again.
the tigers have found me and I do not care.” ― Charles Bukowski


Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Creative viewing

“Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative observation.' Creative viewing.” ― William S. Burroughs, Ports of Entry: William S. Burroughs and the Arts
“It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.”― Charles Darwin

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

“Confined on the ship, from which there is no escape, the madman is delivered to the river with its thousand arms, the sea with its thousand roads, to that great uncertainty external to everything. He is a prisoner in the midst of what is the freest, the openest of routes: bound fast at the infinite crossroads. He is the Passenger par excellence: that is, the prisoner of the passage. And the land he will come to is unknown—as is, once he disembarks, the land from which he comes. He has his truth and his homeland only in that fruitless expanse between two countries that cannot belong to him.” ― Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance



Thursday, February 7, 2013

IF uz living in the past?

“Those who look behind.... will never see beyond.” ― Sherry K. White, Walking in the Father's Riches: The Prosperity of Sonship


 
“Pseudoscience speaks to powerful emotional needs that science often leaves unfulfilled. It caters to fantasies about personal powers we lack and long for.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Sunday, February 3, 2013

nature obeys

“They took a baseball bat and whacked open his head.
Mummy Boy fell to the ground; he finally was dead.
Inside of his head were no candy or prizes,
just a few stray beetles of various sizes.” ―
Tim Burton, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories
 
 
“Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.” ― H.G. Wells [nature obeys it's own rules.... not those made by people]
 

"We all have an expiration date…" ~The Grim Reaper