One night I was sitting on the bed in my hotel room on Bunker Hill, down in the very middle of Los Angeles. It was an important night in my life, because I had to make a decision about the hotel. Either I paid up or I got out: that was what the note said, the note the landlady had put under the door. A great problem, deserving acute attention. I solved it by turning out the lights and going to bed.

- John Fante, Ask The Dust

Considered by experts one of the best pictures ever made of a lightning strike

I am I, and I wish I weren't.

Lebanese Christian Maronite militiamen (smoking cigarettes), two armed with Heckler & Koch G3 battle rifles, and one with an AK-47 assault rifle, on the streets of East Beirut, during the Lebanese Civil War, 1978

Planet Jupiter, observed by NASA’s Juno probe on December 16, 2017

P.P. Pasolini

No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.

Vladimír Takáč

Facta lex inventa fraus

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

— Aldous Huxley