Go get your gun because God won't show. He sent a poet…

“[an encounter in space] "Some celestial event. No--no words--no words to describe it. Poetry! They should have sent a poet. So beautiful. So beautiful...I…

— Carl Sagan as Ellie Arroway

“No, it’s … sometimes it’s that, but sometimes … I’m sent for an idea. In Greenland I was sent for a man, but I…

— Claire North

“To work and create 'for nothing', to sculpture in clay, to know that one's creation has no future, to see one's work destroyed in…

— Albert Camus

“Long before the Theater of the Absurd, Woolrich discovered that an incomprehensible universe is best reflected in an incomprehensible story. ("Introduction")”

— Francis M. Nevins

“So, according to you, the other God does exist after all?' 'He doesn't exist, but He is. There's no pain in a stone, but…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Men, too, secrete the inhuman. At certain moments of lucidity, the mechanical aspect of their gestures, their meaningless pantomime makes silly everything that surrounds…

— Albert Camus

“...just because someone is a loner, it doesn't mean they’re alone. And just because someone is alone, it doesn't mean they’re lonely.”

— Jason Daniel Chaplin

“The jury returned with a verdict of "Don't ask me, I wasn't there," and was excused.”

— Brian Spellman

“Of whom and of what can I say: "I know that"! This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists.…

— Albert Camus

“It seemed a ruse that fear of death should be the sole motivation for living and, yet, to quell this fear made the prospect…

— Ashim Shanker

“To impoverish that reality whose inhumanity constitutes man’s majesty is tantamount to impoverishing him himself.”

— Albert Camus

“To a man devoid of blinders, there is no finer sight than that of the intelligence at grips with a reality that transcends it.”

— Albert Camus

“A policewoman comes up and tells us to move along. “Nothing to see here,” she says. “Not even that stuff you’re looking at.”

— Lincoln Michel

“The arrow of time obscures memory of both past and future circumstance with innumerable fallacies, the least trivial of which is perception.”

— Ashim Shanker

“He wishes he were a skilled poet, it would fit his chosen image perfectly; the poor, tragic, tortured artiste. But he has no talent…

— Curtis Ackie