Maciej

“But then one day, while lifting out an electric corn popper from under the sink, Arctor had hit his head on the corner of a kitchen cabinet directly above him. The pain, the cut in his scalp, so unexpected and undeserved, had for some reason cleared away the cobwebs. It flashed on him instantly that he didn't hate the kitchen cabinet: he hated his wife, his two daughters, his whole house, the back yard with its power mower, the garage, the radiant heating system, the front yard, the fence, the whole fucking place and everyone in it.”
― Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly

“The written word is far more powerful than simply a reminder: it recreates the past in the present, and gives us, not the familiar remembered thing, but the glittering intensity of the summoned-up hallucination.”
― Northrop Frye

“You cannot reason a person out of a position he did not reason himself into in the first place.”
― Jonathan Swift

“The only intelligent tactical response to life’s horror is to laugh defiantly at it”
― Søren Kierkegaard