John

“Over everything—up through the wreckage of the city, in gutters, along the riverbanks, tangled among tiles and tin roofing, climbing on charred tree trunks—was a blanket of fresh, vivid, lush, optimistic green; the verdancy rose even from the foundations of ruined houses. Weeds already hid the ashes, and wild flowers were in bloom among the city’s bones. The bomb had not only left the underground organs of the plants intact; it had stimulated them.”
― John Hersey, Hiroshima

“If in doubt, always attempt to force the hand of chance.”
― Peter J. Carroll, PsyberMagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magick

“Information is information, not matter or energy.”
― Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics: or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine

“LOVE the hideous in order to find the sublime core of it.”
― Mina Loy, The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems