Dana

“He started low and remained there, sure that safety embraced felicity on a mattress of obscurity. He knew that vertical activity invited dazzling exposure, and that to seek is to be sucked. He recognized loneliness as the mother of virtues and sat in her lap whenever he could.”
― David Ohle

“I don't think anyone could write a completely honest autobiography. I am sure no one could bear to read it: My Past Was An Evil River.”
― William S. Burroughs, The Cat Inside

“The fear of school is the worst fear there is. Most people are ruined by it. If not in childhood, then later on. It’s still possible to die from fear of school at sixty.”
― Thomas Bernhard, Frost

“Feeling is believing’ and ‘A Straight Line to the touch is worth a Circle to the sight’”—two Proverbs, very common with the Frailer Sex in Flatland.”
― Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions