If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.

I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it