Allen O'Brien

“God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started.”
― John Updike, Rabbit Is Rich

“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“Even a soul submerged in sleep
is hard at work and helps
make something of the world.”
― Heraclitus, Fragments