I'd like to meet:
People that don't see themselves as the alpha and omega of this universe. Drink a beer and relax. Cripes. You're not going to save the world. In fact you're kind of a mess. If we're lucky we'll be able to look past how stupid we all are and still hang out sometimes.
"What are the chances that God finds our failed impersonation of human dignity adorable? Or is he fooled? What odds do you give me?" -Annie Dillard
"There is no 'beginning' of feminism in the sense that there is no beginning to defiance in women." -Sheila Rowbotham
"People who are born even-tempered, placid, and untroubled--secure from violent passions or tempations to evil--those who have never needed to struggle all night with the Angel to emerge lame but victorious at dawn, never become great saints." -Eva Le Gallienne
"The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is." - Nadine Gordimer
"Open up the window
Let some air into this room
I think I'm almost chokin'
From the smell of stale perfume
And that cigarette you're smoking
'Bout scared me half to death
Open up the window, sucker
Let me catch my breath."
-Three Dog Night
"You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at age sixty, that will be your soul's own doing."
-Marie Stopes
"Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts," -C. S. Lewis
"The lenses of telescopes and cameras can no more cover the breadth and scale of the visual array than language can cover the breadth and simultaneity of internal experience. Lenses enlarge the sight, omit its context, and make of it a pretty and sensible picture, like something on a Christmas card. I assure you, if you send any shepherds a Christmas card on which is printed a three-by-three photograph of the angel of the Lord, the glory of the Lord, and multitude of the heavenly host, they will not be sore afraid. More feasome things can come in envelopes." -Annie Dillard
