Bickety Bam

“Think a new thought, they sometimes tell themselves. The thoughts you have in orbit are so grandiose and old. Think a new one, a completely fresh unthought one. But there are no new thoughts. They’re just old thoughts born into new moments – and in these moments is the thought: without that earth we are all finished.”
― Samantha Harvey, Orbital

“I AM A BETTER DRIVER after a few drinks, more focused.”
― Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

“In Europe the Age of Faith reached its last full flower in Dante; it suffered a vital wound from Occam’s “razor” in the fourteenth century; but it lingered, ailing, till the advent of Bruno and Galileo, Descartes and Spinoza, Bacon and Hobbes; it may return if the Age of Reason achieves catastrophe”
― Will Durant, The Age of Faith

“There were so many things to be done in the process of cleaning up the mess that Caligula had left behind him—nearly four years of misrule—that it makes my head swim even now to think of it.”
― Robert Graves, Claudius The God: And His Wife Messalina