Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Well...

"Well, he did not go gentle into that good night."

~Bob, The Dresden Files

That the very atoms...

"That the very atoms that comprise life on Earth are traceable to the cosmic crucibles that are the center of stars halfway across the galaxy, that were manufactured in those crucibles, in stars that had high enough mass that they went unstable in their later years and exploded scattering their rich guts across the galaxy. These are the elements that comprise life as we know it. So that not only are we in this universe, the universe is in us. And we're not just poetically so, we are literally stardust."

~Neil deGrasse Tyson

Nice guy...

Castle: Nice guy. I can see how it wouldn't work though.
Beckett: Really?
Castle: Yeah. Handsome. Square-jawwed. By-the-book.
Beckett: And that's a bad thing?
Castle: He's like the male you. Yin needs yang, not another yin. Yin-Yang is harmony. Ying-Ying is... a name for a panda.

~Castle, "Little Lost Girl"

Sunday, May 10, 2009

Once I am sure...

"Once I am sure there's nothing going on
I step inside, letting the door thud shut.
Another church: matting, seats, and stones,
And little books; sprawlings of flowers, cut
For Sunday, brownish now:"

~Philip Larkin, "Church Going"

But superstition...

"But superstition, like belief, must die
And what remains when disbelief has gone?
Grass, weedy pavement, brambles, buttress, sky"

~Philip Larkin, "Church Going"

Lost in a haunted...

"Lost in a haunted wood,
Children afraid of the night
Who have never been happy or good"

~W. H. Auden, "September 1, 1939"