On her best days, she’d thought of herself like a medieval monk struggling to understand the saints to better see the face of God. More often, she felt like a termite trying to explain dogs to her fellow Isoptera so that they could all
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“By four o'clock, I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead.”
― Transmetropolitan, Vol. 3: Year of the Bastard
― Transmetropolitan, Vol. 3: Year of the Bastard
“When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.”
― King Lear
― King Lear
“Oh, we are but soft and squishy bags of mortality rolling in a bin of sharp circumstance, leaking life until we collapse, flaccid, into our own despair.”
― Fool
― Fool
“America has invested her religion as well as her morality in sound income-paying securities. She has adopted the unassailable position of a nation blessed because it deserves to be blessed; and her sons, whatever other theologies they may affect or disregard, subscribe unreservedly to this national creed. —AGNES REPPLIER, TIMES AND TENDENCIES”
― American Gods
― American Gods
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