An Other alice

“I paint because I have no tail to wag.”
― Hermann Hesse, Rosshalde

“It's possible to save oneself from Satan, Father Francis, but from men—never!”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Saint Francis

“I pity the village where no one is a saint, but I also pity the village where everyone is a saint!”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Saint Francis

“Don't you want to be anything. An architect or a gardener, or perhaps a painter?'
'No, I don't … I'd like to do entirely different things. I'd like to understand what robins say to each other. … I'd like to see how trees manage to drink water with their roots and get to be so big.”
― Hermann Hesse, Rosshalde