Keeley

“Like a god, like an ogre? The personification of the natural is exactly the tendency I wish to suppress in myself, to eliminate for good. I am here not only to evade for a while the clamor and filth and confusion of the cultural apparatus but also to confront, immediately and directly if it's possible, the bare bones of existence, the elemental and fundamental, the bedrock which sustains us. I want to be able to look at and into a juniper tree, a piece of quartz, a vulture, a spider, and see it as it is in itself, devoid of all humanly ascribed qualities, anti-Kantian, even the categories of scientific description. To meet God or Medusa face to face, even if it means risking everything human in myself. I dream of a hard and brutal mysticism in which the naked self merges with a non-human world and yet somehow survives still intact, individual, separate. Paradox and bedrock.”
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire

“There's none so blind as those who will not listen.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“You see a mousetrap; I see free cheese and a fucking challenge!”
― Scroobius Pip

“The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy