Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies.

David Foster Wallace

jean-claude gotting

They sicken of the calm who know the storm.

Dorothy Parker

jean-claude gotting

When we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another.

Salvador Dalí

jean-claude gotting

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

Jack Kerouac

Dod Procter

This is my quest, to follow that star
No matter how hopeless, no matter how far

The Impossible Dream

Dod Procter

Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Dod Procter

In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Dod Procter

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.

William Shakespeare, Macbeth

Dod Procter

“Force is all conquering, but it's victories are short lived.”
― Abraham Lincoln

Dod Procter

„How privileged you are, to be passionately clinging to what you love; the forfeit of hope has not destroyed you.“

Louise Gluck

Dod Procter

And all the insects ceased in honor of the moon.

Jack Kerouac, Lonesome Traveler

Paul Caponigro

„It’s much too dangerous to jump through the fire with your clothes on!“ Lord Summerisle

Paul Caponigro

I have seen beyond the bounds of infinity and drawn down daemons from the stars. . . . I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness. . . .

HP Lovecraft, „From Beyond”

Paul Caponigro

A calamity can be erased by no amount of good. It can only be erased by a worse calamity.

Cormac McCarthy

Paul Caponigro

I often think how unfairly life’s good fortune is sometimes distributed.

Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

Paul Caponigro