Curtis

“The Initial Mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveler reach his starting point in the first place?”
― Louise Bogan, Journey Around My Room: The Autobiography of Louise Bogan

“. . . Therefore, go forth, companion: when you find
No highway more, no track, all being blind,
The way to go shall glimmer in the mind.
Though you have conquered Earth and Charted Sea
And planned the courses of all Stars that be,
Adventure on, more wonders are in Thee.
Adventure on, for from the littlest clue
Has come whatever worth man ever knew;
The next to lighten all men may be you . . .”
― John Masefield

“all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.”
― Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence

“Divine permission, given to people who think they have god on their side, enables actions that a morally normal unbeliever would not contemplate.”
― Christopher Hitchens