"And by came an Angel who had a bright key,
And he open'd the coffins & set them all free.
Then down a green plain leaping laughing they run
And wash in a river and shine in the Sun."
William Blake, "The Chimney Sweeper," from Songs of Innocence
"Y'know, I'm a twin myself."
My dad's housekeeper, remarking on the similarity between my sister, born in 1980, and me, born in 1978
Ruby: "Is what you are really what you are?"
Eve: (pause) "No!"
Ruby: "She's a doppelganger! I'm very much in support of doppelgangers." (hug)
Eve: (to herself) [Maybe I am a twin after all...]
Dennis the Menace addresses the General Assembly in 1962:
"As Chief U.S. Delegate to the United Nations, I would like to report that I have, through protracted discussion and extended mediation, accomplished the following: I have solved the Vietnam crisis... I have straightened out the Berlin situation... I have come up with a mutually acceptable disarmament plan... and I've put chewing gum on all your seats."
from MAD About the Sixties
"Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another."
Kant, What is Enlightenment?
"Growling is the equivalent of cayenne pepper sauce in conversation."
Eve
Unsigned scribbles from a cubby, 6th floor, Burrow Library at Rhodes College:
"I need a little oblivion, baby."
"GO HOME DAD, YOU'RE DRUNK."
"Add to the collective subconscious--write graffitti"
"Come here baby and tell me all about dirtiness."
from artwork at the Daves' apartment in Louisville
"A good painter has two chief objects to paint--man and the intention of his soul."
Leonardo da Vinci
"I'm not an actor, but I play one on TV."
Kristin
"Perhaps at an early moment in your life you were aware of something, say a spaniel, and in your head there happened to be occuring a certain neural event, N1. In my case, when an identical neural event occured, I was aware of a bathtub."
One of Ted Honderich's obtuse examples in How Free Are You?
"Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual."
Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
"Other kids' games are all such a bore!
They've gotta have rules and they gotta keep score!
Calvinball is better by far!
It's never the same! It's always bizarre!
You don't need a team or referee!
You know that it's great, 'cause it's named after me!"
Calvin and Hobbes
"All good poets compose their beautiful poems not by art, but because they are inspired and possessed . . . for not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine."
Plato, Ion
"Neither humor, nor poetry, nor imagination means anything unless . . . they succeed in organically reinvolving man, his ideas about reality, and his poetic place in reality."
Antonin Artaud