Rick

“Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.”
― Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude

“If Henry Miller often sounded like a village idiot, it is because, like Whitman, he was the rest of the village as well.”
― Gore Vidal

“...a soul isn't something a person is born with but something that must be built, by effort and error, study and love.”
― Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding

“Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust at galaxy's edge, all the more reason for us to maintain in proper balance what we have here. Because there is nothing else. Nothing. This is it. And quite enough, all in all.”
― Gore Vidal