Herself Defined

“Haven’t you offered up some part of your Self to someone (or some thing), and taken on a “narrative” in return? Haven’t we entrusted some part of our personality to some greater System or Order? And if so, has not that System at some stage demanded of us some kind of “insanity”? Is the narrative you now possess really and truly your own? Are your dreams really your own dreams? Might not they be someone else’s visions that could sooner or later turn into nightmares?”
― Haruki Murakami, Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche

“Sometimes the best solution is simplification.”
― Bobby Bragan

“The heads of strong old age are beautiful / Beyond all grace of youth”
― Robinson Jeffers

“Sometimes, in this multifaceted world of ours, inconsistency can be more eloquent than consistency.”
― Haruki Murakami, Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche