Quotation from Vincent Price in “House of Wax”

“There’s a pain beyond pain, an agony so intense it shocks the mind into instant oblivion.” — Vincent Price (as Professor Henry Jarrod)

Passage from “I Solved the Fermi Paradox and I Regret It. We’re Not Alone” by Travis Brown

She didn’t answer. I heard her crying. I wondered what it was like for her, crying without eyes. Were there still tears? — Travis Brown, “I Solved the Fermi Paradox and I Regret It. We’re Not Alone”

Passage from “On the Road” by Jack Kerouac

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

Passage from “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams

“It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see…” “You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?” “No,” said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, “nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world,

Quotation from Elizabeth Bishop

“There’s nothing more embarrassing than being a poet.” — Elizabeth Bishop, “The Art of Poetry No. 27” Editor’s Note: Hello, friends. I wanted to thank everyone who has been reading, commenting, “liking,” disliking (no button for that, thank the gods), and… well, whatever else during the past couple of months. It has been a joy

Passage from “Hearts in Atlantis” by Stephen King

What if there were no grownups? Suppose the whole idea of grownups was an illusion? What if their money was really just playground marbles, their business deals no more than baseball-card trades, their wars only games of guns in the park? What if they were all still snotty-nosed kids inside their suits and dresses? Christ,

Passage from “The Call of the Wild” by Jack London

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive. This ecstasy, this forgetfulness of living, comes to the artist, caught up and

Man-E-Faces/Pseudobulbarsaur Affect (PBA PSA: Candid Admissions)

“I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel—a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept.“ – Horace Walpole in a letter to Horace Mann “Comment: Ct alternates between cracking jokes and sobbing.“ – Mental health professional in my admission