Mark

“In the wilderness, only the most terrible beasts of prey cavort and gambol. Deer and rabbits play no games.”
― Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver

“The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.”
― Eric Hoffer, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

“The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“You dance inside my chest,
where no one sees you,

but sometimes I do, and that
sight becomes this art.”
― Rumi