Phil Schuler

“Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background.”
― Victor Hugo, Ninety-Three

“I've a grand memory for forgetting,”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped

“And I learned that are troubles
Of more than one kind
Some come from ahead
And some come from behind.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew

“Ghosts! […] I almost think we are all of us ghosts. It is not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that ‘walks’ in us. It is all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we cannot shake them off. Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sands of the sea. And then we are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.”
― Henrik Ibsen