Anya

“Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.”
― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

“Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages.”
― Angela Davis

“All wisdom ends in paradox.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“Ripples in the upside down lake of the void . . . The bottom of the world is gold and the world is upside down”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road