Josh

“The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords. But none of these scars were fresh. They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“And I was already on my way to being a true freak because I knew I would always choose to go where my blood beats, in any and all directions.”
― bell hooks

“We all agree it's too big to keep up with, that we're surrounded by life, that we'll never understand it, so we center it all in by swigging Scotch from the bottle and when it's empty I run out of the car and buy another one, period.”
― Jack Kerouac, Big Sur

“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
― Joseph Campbell