Kajah

“Years ago, when he was around fourteen, he'd been all hipped on the idea of going to India. He read books about people sitting on rocks, naked, in all kinds of weather, but mostly bad, naturally, and walking barefoot through hot coals and arriving at wisdom. I used to say that it sounded to me as though they were getting away from wisdom as fast as they could. I think he sort of looked down on me for that.”
― James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues

“What happens when people open their hearts?"
"They get better.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Opera lovers may be the narrowest people in the world.”
― Haruki Murakami, After the Quake

“The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished by a sharp blow or by insufficient oxygen.”
― Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works