I look and I look... I must have come to the wrong planet…

I must have ended up on the wrong planet. Everything here is so strange.

— Sigbjørn Obstfelder

I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time,…

— Philip Levine

“If you Don't where you going, look back and see where you have come from”

— Jason Aites

“the elements of a modern creation myth are all around us. It is harmful because it contributes to the subtle but pervasive quality of…

— David Christian

The majority of American writers today have chosen passive non-resistance to things as they are, producing sloughs of poetry about their personal angst and…

— Edward Abbey

“I know that these mental disturbances of mine are not dangerous and give no promise of a storm; to express what I complain of…

— Seneca

“A self-destructive man feels completely alienated, utterly alone. He's an outsider to the human community. He thinks to himself, "I must be insane." What…

— Richard Linklater

If man merely sat back and thought about his impending termination, and his terrifying insignificance and aloneness in the cosmos, he would surely go…

— Stanley Kubrick

Perfection. Excellence. What a passionate lover. But once having tasted the lips of excellence, once having given oneself to its perfection, how dreary and…

— Harlan Ellison

“Every human being needs a set of norms and rules, traditions and customs, transmitted from the older to the younger; without those norms, the…

— Tzvetan Todorov

Unrestrained automobility, hedonism, individualism, and conspicuous consumption cannot be sustained because they take more than they give back. A spiritually impoverished world cannot be…

— David W. Orr

one sank into the ancient sin of anomie when challenges failed.

— Carolyn Heilbrun

“How then does light return to the world after the eclipse of the sun? Miraculously. Frailly. In thin stripes. It hangs like a glass…

— Virginia Woolf

The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an…

— Jean Baudrillard

“If you on't like bacteria, you're on the wrong planet.”

— Stewart Brand