Eeke Van Der Wal

“Wishing the world was predictable an controllable does not make it so, and it might make us disregard what is actually happening”
― Jean G. Boulton

“If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.”
― Quentin Crisp, The Naked Civil Servant; How To Become A Virgin; Resident Alien

“if you'd like it put more simply---Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

“If there's no meaning in it," said the King, "that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any. And yet I don't know," he went on [...]; "I seem to see some meaning in them, after all.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass