"It's not true unless it makes you laugh, but you don't understand until it makes you weep." 
Shea and Wilson, The Illuminatus

there is more to history than politics. politics is to civilization what the ego is to self.

-william irwin thompson, at the edge of history

" it makes no difference what men think of war said the judge. war endures. as well ask men what they think of stone. war was always here. before man was, war waited for him. the ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. this is the way it was and will be. that way and not some other way." 

blood meridian, cormack mccarthy

" i slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; i drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.

- aleister crowley

But he says, "Get rid of these dark thoughts,"

And he gets rid of these dark thoughts.

And what could he say,

And what could he do

That's any better?

Robert Desnos