Quote for Today: Donald Kingsbury
Contradictions do not perplex the logician. They arise because there are more rules to an open game than can be known. ―Donald Kingsbury, Courtship Rite Image: M.C. Escher, Belvedere, 1958 …
Contradictions do not perplex the logician. They arise because there are more rules to an open game than can be known. ―Donald Kingsbury, Courtship Rite Image: M.C. Escher, Belvedere, 1958 …
There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any brain, which can never …
And then, unbidden, seemingly out of nowhere, a thought or image arrives. Some will float into your head like goldfish, lovely, bright, orange, and weightless, and you follow them like …
I feel as though, if I were to extend my hand just a little toward the pool where the ideas ferment, I could grab at the idea and pull it …
All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new …
The black thing in her brain and the dark water on the page were the same thing, a form of knowledge. This is how myths work. They are things, creatures, …
I want to learn how to speak to anyone at any time and make us both feel a little bit better, lighter, richer, with no commitments of ever meeting again. …
In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to forget their existence, and the buried ones, …
We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a …
I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and …
