“The more I see of the world, the less inclined I am to think well of it.”

-Elizabeth Bennet, Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

“Life can only be understood backwards.”

-Soren Kierkegaard

“Worship the music, not the musicians.”

-Eddie Vedder

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

-George Bernard Shaw

I am troubled
Immeasurably
By your eyes

I am struck
By the feather
of your soft
Reply

The sound of glass
Speaks quick
Disdain

And conceals
What your eyes fight
To explain

-Jim Morrison, “The American Night”

“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”

-Lord Tennyson