Sixty

“I still live inside my head. To this day you can leave me alone for hours and I’m perfectly happy entertaining myself. I have to remember to be with people.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“That was the way with Man; it had always been that way. He had carried terror with him. And the thing he was afraid of had always been himself.”
― Clifford D. Simak, Way Station

“Have you no respect for the past? For what was thought and believed by your foremothers?”
“Why, no,” she said. “Why should we? They are all gone. They knew less than we do. If we are not beyond them, we are unworthy of them—and unworthy of the children who must go beyond us.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland

“For there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.”
― Herman Melville