Derek

“I had the feeling of something inside me that flipped like a fish in a net. It was hope. As much as I bad-mouth people in general and think the worst of them, I'm secretly waiting for them to surprise me. Try as I might, I haven't been able to give up on them wholly. Even though they are nine and nine-tenths dirt, now and again they are capable of something angelic. I can't say that it restores my faith, because I really had none in the first place, but when it happens it does confuse you.”
― Marcel Theroux, Far North

“Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.”
― Shane Claiborne

“You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.”
― Wendell Berry

“I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America