Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto.
We are here and it is now.
Further than that
all knowledge is Moonshine.
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for
bears to dance to,
You see, the problem is communication. Too much communication.
He who binds to himself a joy
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes,
The greater part of what my neighbors call good
I believe in my soul to be bad,
and if I repent of anything,
it is very likely to be my good behavior.
What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?
Yes, quaint and curious war is!
It's a complete myth that Russians drink too much. Finns drink
much more.
I have a powerful need... shall I say the word?... of religion.
Act always as if the future of the Universe depended on
what you did, while laughing at yourself for thinking that
whatever you do makes any difference.
...then please don't be surprised when you find me dreaming too.
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which
does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Some men stumble onto the truth now and then... but they usually pick
themselves up and hurry on as if nothing had happened.
John Q. Driveway has my number, now
it's time to play the waiting game...
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.
Where it all ends I can't fathom, my friends;
The question, O me! so sad, recurring--What good amid these, O me, O life?
Leaves of Grass my ass!
People understand the energy necessary to maintain their own
shields, but not the energy expended by other people. They
understand that their own sanity is a performance, but when
confronted by other people they confuse the person with the role.
~ Keith Johnstone, Impro
I am a man: nothing human is alien to me.
~ Terence, Heautontimoroumenos, 77 (Katchadourian said it during HumSex)
~ H.L. Mencken
while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
~ Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
~ Homer Simpson
Does the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in Eternity's sunrise
~ William Blake
but in having new eyes.
~ Marcel Proust
~ Henry David Thoreau
You shoot a fellow down
You'd treat if met where any bar is,
Or help to half-a-crown.
~ Thomas Hardy, The Man He Killed
~ Vladimir Mau on Russian logic
Then I go out at night and paint the stars.
~ Van Gogh
~ Buddhist writings
~ Phil Lesh
~ Khalil Gibran
~ Winston Churchill.
Oh, the waiting game sucks, let's play
Hungry Hungry Hippos.
~ Homer J.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Henry David Thoreau
if I knew, I might toss out my anchor.
So I'll cruise along always searchin' for songs,
not a lawyer, a thief, or a banker.
~ Jimmy Buffett
Answer:
That you are here--that life exists, and identity;
That the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse.
~ Walt Whitman
~ Homer Simpson