Ray Johns

“If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to meet it!”
― Jonathan Winters

“After all, what can a first impression tell us about someone we’ve just met for a minute in the lobby of a hotel? For that matter, what can a first impression tell us about anyone? Why, no more than a chord can tell us about Beethoven, or a brushstroke about Botticelli. By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only our consideration, but our reconsideration—and our unwavering determination to withhold our opinion until we have engaged with them in every possible setting at every possible hour.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

“You come into this world, not knowing who you are, and sometimes, if you live long enough, you go out not knowing who you are.”
― Jonathan Winters, The Amazing Jonathan Winters

“Algebra, like laudanum, deadens pain, Fritz wrote.”
― Penelope Fitzgerald, The Blue Flower