If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which have made me what I am? – John Lancaster Spalding
I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced. – Henry David Thoreau, “Solitude,” Walden, 1854
Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has. – Randolph Bourne
If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur thats much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning. – Chuck Palahniuk
