Dr. Barrett Dylan Brown, Phd

“Yet magic is no more the art of employing consciously invisible means to produce visible effects. Will, love, and imagination are magic powers that everyone possesses; and whoever knows how to develop them to their fullest extent is a magician. Magic has but one dogma, namely, that the seen is the measure of the unseen.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Magician

“There is no disaster greater than not being content; There is no misfortune greater than being covetous.”
― Lao Tzu

“God cheats men into living on by hiding how blessed it is to die.”
― Lucanus, De bello civili libri X (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana)

“Each of us promenades his thought, like a monkey on a leash. When you read, you always have to such monkeys: your own and one belonging to someone else. Or, even worse, a monkey and a hyena. Now, consider what you will feed them. For a hyena does not eat the same things as a monkey...”
― Milorad Pavić, Dictionary of the Khazars