Josh Anderson

“Do you think that the amoeba ever dreamed that it would evolve into the frog? Of course it didn't. And when that first frog shimmied out of the water and employed its vocal chords in order to attract a mate or to retard a predator, do you think that that frog ever imagined that that incipient croak would evolve into all the languages of the world, into all the literature of the world? Of course it fucking didn't. And just as that froggy could never possibly have conceived of Shakespeare, so we can never possibly imagine our destiny”
― Mike Leigh, Naked

“Maybe when people take their eyes off them, inanimate objects become even more inanimate.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“When we've all finished talking, there's something that never utters a word, but goes right down through the earth, plumb to the centre.”
― Aleister Crowley, Diary of a Drug Fiend

“Yet in the midst of all their prosperity, princes in this respect seem to me most unfortunate, because, having no one to tell them truth, they are forced to receive flatterers for friends.”
― Erasmus, Praise of Folly