Nelson Stopher

“Ahab and aguish lay stretched together in one hammock.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“I think that knowledge enslaves us, that at the base of all knowledge there is a servility, the acceptation of a way of life wherein each moment has meaning only in relation to another or others that will follow it.”
― Georges Bataille, The Unfinished System of Nonknowledge

“I have pain in my hip and long walks are a thing of the past but I'm neither morbid nor senile. I'm not obsessed by death, but I'm at an age when I have to accept that my time is about up. You want to close the accounts and take care of unfinished business.”
― Stieg Larsson

“I'm really too young to go out into the world alone," he thought as he lay down”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web