An Other alice

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

“What do you have to fear? Nothing. Whom do you have to fear? No one. Why? Because whoever has joined forces with God obtains three great privileges: omnipotence without power, intoxication without wine, and life without death.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Saint Francis

“That's how I want to be remembered. I want to shine.”
― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

“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