Humanity

When a man is treated like an animal, he says, "After all: I’m human." When a man behaves like an animal, he says, "After all: I’m only human.

Karl Kraus

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It Goes On...

Robert Frost

Milton

"Is this the region, this the soil, the clime,"
Said then the lost Archangel, "this the seat
That we must change for Heaven?—this mournful gloom
For that celestial light? Be it so, since He
Who now is sovran can dispose and bid
What shall be right: fardest from Him is best,
Whom reason hath equalled, force hath made supreme
Above his equals. Farewell, happy fields,
Where joy forever dwells! Hail, horrors! hail,
Infernal World! and thou, profoundest Hell,
Receive thy new possessor--one who brings
A mind not to be changed by place or time.
The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.

--Milton, Paradise Lost, I

Eliot Porter

Aspens, Colorado, 1959

Kissinger

Asked if he'll support McCain if he runs for president in 2008, Kissinger says, "Very likely." Then he corrects himself: "Almost certainly. I don't have to qualify that."

New York Magazine. December 4, 2006. Kissinger

Utterance

"Utterance"

Sitting over words
Very late I have heard a kind of whispered sighing
Not far
Like a night wind in pines or like the sea in the dark
The echo of everything that has ever
Been spoken
Still spinning its one syllable
Between the earth and silence

- W.S. Merwin

Happiness

"Happy? Who can answer for that? Happiness or unhappiness is the secret known but to one's self and the walls -- walls have ears but no tongue"

The Count of Monte Cristo

"-- those favored creatures who have formed for themselves a life of dreams and a paradise of realities."

The Count of Monte Cristo