a few words i enjoyed

And as far as I can see the world is too old for us to talk about it with our new words - We will pass just as quietly through life (passing through, passing through) as the 10th century people of this valley only with a little more noise and a few bridges and dams and bombs that won't even last a million years...

-- Jack Kerouac, Big Sur

Resolute contemplation of the terrifying object is the only possible treatment.

-- Bertrand Russell

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstacy at your feet..

-- Franz Kafka