“You have to look backward to see the future.” - Susannah Cahalan, Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

“I don’t think that people accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable.” - David Lynch

"The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff." Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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Make a radical change in your lifestyle...

“Make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty”

- Into The Wild 

On the Nature of Intimacy

I love the way you look at me when you're like this, but I watch it decay. I can only hold your attention for so long.

Why is sex the definition of being close to someone?

I don't know, but it is for me, it is for most people.

Just because you climb a mountain doesn't mean you love it.

-The Better Half, Mad Men

“Find what you love and let it kill you.” - Charles Bukowski