Quote for Today: Thomas Ligotti
From the earliest days of man there has endured the conviction that there is an order of existence which is entirely strange to him. It does indeed seem that …
Quote for Today: W. Somerset Maugham
I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a …
Quote for Today: Joan Halifax
Everybody has a geography that can be used for change. That is why we travel to far off places. Whether we know it or not we need to renew ourselves …
Quote for Today: Richard Wright
One walks along a street and strays unknowingly from one’s path; one then looks up suddenly for those familiar landmarks of orientation, and, seeing none, one feels lost. Panic drapes …
Quote for Today: Grant Morrison
Superhero science has taught me this: Entire universes fit comfortably inside our skulls. Not just one or two but endless universes can be packed into that dark, wet, and bony …
Creative Freedom and Tradition: Controversies of the Wandjina
Creativity and faith sometimes collide in very unpleasant ways. What lies behind this conflict and can it ever be resolved? In the Kimberley area of Australia, indigenous tribes worship the …
Quote for Today: Keith Jarrett
If a person plays dissonance long enough, it will sound like consonance. It’s a language that was alien and then it’s less and less alien as it continues to live. …
Quote for Today: David Darling
A bewildering assortment of (mostly microscopic) life-forms has been found thriving in what were once thought to be uninhabitable regions of our planet. These hardy creatures have turned up in …
Quote for Today: Donald Hall
Over the years I travelled to another universe. However alert we are, however much we think we know what will happen, antiquity remains an unknown, unanticipated galaxy. It is alien, …
Quote for Today: Stanisław Lem
Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways …