Adam Helsel

“The center and symbol of an empire of dreaming, where men live in the dry desert and count their meaning only in gold. An absurdity. Of course an absurdity. An Emperor who rules forever, in a palace built on sand. A thing sacred to eternity, dead and rotted, encrusted with dust. A hive of insects crawling to achieve divinity, the sublime pointlessness of absolute rule. No one cares. No one wonders. Time ceases. Dust settles.”
― Anna Smith Spark, The Court of Broken Knives

“To an alcoholic, the bottom is every day. Every day, you try to quit. You know that you’ve got no control. You’re really pumped—you have four hours under your belt. And then you have seven hours. It’s one o’clock in the afternoon and you’re proud: “I haven’t had a drink since three o’clock this morning!” And then it’s happy hour and you have a beer. And then another beer. And then a shot and a beer. Bingo! Gone again!”
― Derek Sanderson, Crossing the Line: The Outrageous Story of a Hockey Original

“Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will.

Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms