An Imaginary Cat

“Once man loses his faculty of indifference he becomes a potential murderer; once he transforms his idea into a god the consequences are incalculable. We kill only in the name of a god or of his counterfeits: the excesses provoked by the goddess Reason, by the concept of nation, class, or race are akin to those of the Inquisition or of the Reformation”
― Emil Cioran, A Short History of Decay

“It might be inexplicable. It might be beyond the limits of my senses to capture—or my science or my intellect—but I still believed I was in the presence of some kind of living creature, one that practiced mimicry using my own thoughts. For even then, I believed that it might be pulling these different impressions of itself from my mind and projecting them back at me, as a form of camouflage.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

“It does not matter where you come from, if you walk toward the truth you will reach it, whatever path you take.”
― Neil Gaiman, Stories: All-New Tales

“The greatest of love letters are always coded for the one and not the many.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves