Nothing seems more permanent than a long-established government about to lose power, nothing more invincible than a grand army on the morning of its annihilation.

            — John Ralston Saul

Pain penetrates

Me drop
by drop

            — Sappho

Think if Tiffany’s made a mosquito, how wonderful we would think it was!

            — Brenda Ueland

The cocktail party — as the name itself indicates — was originally invented by dogs. They are simply bottom-sniffings raised to the rank of formal ceremonies.

            — Lawrence Durrell

The truth of the matter is that you didn’t come into this world at all. You came out of it, in just the same way that a leaf comes out of a tree or a baby from a womb….Just as Jesus said that one doesn’t gather figs from thistles or grapes from thorns, so also you don’t gather people from a world that isn’t peopling. Our world is peopling just as the apple tree apples, and just as the vine grapes.

            — Alan Watts