Quote from Kurt Vonnegut (RIP)

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t

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“Under the desert sun” quote from Edward Abbey

“Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist. The air is clean, the rock cuts

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Yukio Mishima on the meaning of life

All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence. For forty-five years I struggled to resolve this dilemma by

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