John

“How many thousands have I spent on perfume and alcohol, cigarettes and Turkish baths, disappointing trips and third-class movies; how many months in silent bars or parks, expecting, in a chair with a book not reading, or waiting in line, waiting in line? Who will tell me it’s a loss when I know life must be for pleasure? The parks were balanced by museums, the baths by oceans, bars by composition, and the dreaming chair by books finished. Nothing is waste that makes a memory.”
― Ned Rorem, The Paris Diary & The New York Diary, 1951–1961

“Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he’s destroying is this God he’s worshiping.”
― Hubert Reeves

“I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.”
― Richard Feynman

“Be consoled in the secret symmetry of your soul.”
― John O'Donohue, Walking in Wonder: Eternal Wisdom for a Modern World