Jesper

“Unless a film of flesh envelops us, we die. Man exists only insofar as he is separated from his surroundings. The cranium is a space-traveler's helmet. Stay inside or you perish. Death is divestment, death is communion.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin

“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“All cat stories start with this statement: "My mother, who was the first cat, told me this...”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.”
― Evelyn Waugh