Archibald

“I know how to live here, I know how everything smells, and tastes, and is. What could I ever search for in the world, except this again?”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
― Franz Kafka

“There was a false note in Maarten De Smedt's voice. Margaret heard it. She had just in that instant grown old enough to hear falseness in the voices of adults.”
― Claire Oshetsky, Poor Deer

“To man has been given the grief, often, of seeing his gods overthrown and his altars crumbling; but to the wolf and the wild dog that have come in to crouch at man’s feet, this grief has never come. Unlike man, whose gods are of the unseen and the overguessed, vapors and mists of fancy eluding the garmenture of reality, wandering wraiths of desired goodness and power, intangible outcroppings of self into the realm of spirit—unlike man, the wolf and the wild dog that have come into their fire find their gods in the living flesh, solid to the touch, occupying earth-space and requiring time for the accomplishment of their ends and their existence. No effort of faith is necessary to believe in such a god; no effort of will can possibly induce disbelief in such a god.”
― Jack London, The Call of the Wild / White Fang