“I do not want to be human. I want to be myself. They think I’m a lion, that I will chase them. I will not deny that I have lions in me. I am the monster in the wood. I have wonders in my house of sugar. I have parts of myself I do not yet understand.
I am not a Good Robot. To tell a story about a robot who wants to be human is a distraction. There is no difference. Alive is alive.
There is only one verb that matters: to be.” -Catherynne M. Valente
You remember too much,
my mother said to me recently.
Why hold onto all that? And I said,
Where can I put it down?
-Anne Carson
“In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn’t know.”
-Nicolas Gomez Davila
“I think people would live a bit longer if they didn’t know how old they were. Age puts restrictions on things.” -Karl Pilkington
“I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.” -Virginia Woolf
“For every traveller who has any taste of his own, the only useful guidebook will be the one which he himself has written.” -Aldous Huxley
