Andrei Vylinski

“Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back”
― John Maynard Keynes

“Michiko Nogami (1946—1982)”

Is she more apparent because she is not
anymore forever? Is her whiteness more white
because she was the color of pale honey?
A smokestack making the sky more visible.
A dead woman filling the whole world. Michiko
said, “The roses you gave me kept me awake
with the sound of their petals falling.”
― Jack Gilbert, The Great Fires

“Well, there you are: a hobbit amongst the Urukhai. Keep up your hobbitry in heart, and think that all stories feel like that when you are in them. You are inside a very great story!

Letter 66
From a letter to Christopher Tolkien”
― Humphrey Carpenter, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

“Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.”
― David Hume