September 2002 Quotes

These five words in my head scream "are we having fun yet?" 

- How you Remind me. Nikelback

(On religion)

We continue in our children, and in our the memories of others; we continue in our dust and ash. To want more was not just childish, but cowardly, and some how constipatory, too. Death was change; it led to new chances, new vacancies, new niches and opportunities; it was not all loss.

The belief that we somehow moved onto something else - whether still recognisably ourselves, or quite thoroughly changed - might be a tribute to our evolutionary tenacity and our animal thirst for life, but not to our wisdom. That saw a value beyond itself; in intelligence, knowledge and wit as concepts - where-ever and by whoever expressed - not just in its own personal manifestation of those qualities, and so could contemplate its own annihilation with equanimity, and suffer it with grace; it was only a sort of sad selfishness that demanded the continuation of the individual spirit in the vanity and frivolity of a heaven.

- The Crow Road. Ian Banks.

St. Francis of Assisi was hoeing his garden when someone asked what he would do if he were suddenly to learn that he would die before sunset that very day. "I would finish hoeing my garden," he replied.

- Louis Fischer

Good things don't end in "eum", they end in "mania" or "teria" - Homer J. Simpson.

Maybe, just once, someone will call me "sir" without adding, "you're making a scene"

 - Homer J. Simpson

One love

One blood

One life

You got to do what you should

One life

With each other

Sisters, Brothers.

- U2. One

And I swear I found the key to the universe in the engine of an old parked car.

- Bruce Springsteen. Growin' Up.