“No, what worries me is that I might in a sense adapt to this environment and come to be comfortable here and not resent it anymore. And I am afraid that as the years go by that I may forget, I may begin to lose my memories of the mountains and the woods and that’s what really worries me, that I might lose those memories, and lose that sense of contact with wild nature in general. But I am not afraid they are going to break my spirit.”

— Ted Kaczynski, when asked if he was afraid of losing his mind in prison.

“I'm a born librarian with a sex drive”

“I have tried to write Paradise

Do not move
Let the wind speak
that is paradise.

Let the Gods forgive what I
have made
Let those I love try to forgive
what I have made.”

― Ezra Pound

“Nostos,” by Louise Glück

“Consider how every individual is affected by an overall philosophical justification of his way of living and thinking. He experiences it as a sun that shines especially for him, bestowing warmth, blessings, and fertility.”

—The Gay Science, §289 (edited excerpt).

“Even one’s thoughts one cannot reproduce entirely in words.”

—The Gay Science, §244.

Passengers on a tourist ship see work going on on the Brooklyn Bridge, 1946.