Buford Vreeken

“To rush headlong into the comforting darkness of selfhood as a reborn human being, or even as beast, an unhappy ghost, a denizen of hell. Anything rather than the burning brightness of unmitigated Reality.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception

“Little pinpricks fire-cracker up and down my body. Just calm down, I tell myself. You just make her nervous showing up all out of the blue like that. Still, I'm flattered that I matter-- even if it's just enough to scare her.”
― Gayle Forman, Where She Went

“To be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, ans that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impoitently happy.”
― Edwin Abbott Abbott

“That is not it at all,
That is not what I meant, at all.”
― T.S. Eliot