Ross Cardillo

“It sounds like they’re saying passive life is good, he thought. But there is no such thing as passive life. That’s a contradiction.”
― Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly

“I liked my own company. I wanted pals, but I grew to like my own company. There was me, and there was all yous. I liked that feeling. I still do.”
― Limmy, Surprisingly Down to Earth, and Very Funny: My Autobiography

“...to have watched a human being you loved deeply, that you had gotten real close to, held and slept with and kissed and worried about and befriended and most of all admired—to see that warm living person burn out from the inside, burn from the heart outward. Until it clicked and clacked like an insect, repeating one sentence again and again. A recording. A closed loop of tape.”
― Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly

“My God . . . that grinding is a greeting.
My arrival is honored with the honing of an axe”
― Simon Armitage, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight