Off Again

Well, I'm sitting here about to head out again, and I feel I should have some inspiring quotation or other to mark the occasion. I know Will said some things about going once more into the breech, and there is the famous,] line about try, trying again, but they don't strike me. So I'll just share a few of my favorites for the sake of sharing.

It was their way of defying that tricky place Earth. That place will hurt you if you let it get the hop on you. They spooked the Earth spooks away with their stories. They whistled in the dark.

-R.A. Lafferty

To you who are scattered and broken, gather again and mend. Rebuild always, and again I say rebuild. Renew the face of the earth. It is a loved face, but now it is covered with the webs of tired spiders. - Lafferty

"There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind."

-Kurt Vonnegut (a character is Baptizing some babies)

"Why don't you take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut? Why don't you take a flying fuck at the mooooooooooooon?" -Vonnegut

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different. -Vonnegut

If you get to the fork in the road, take it. -Yogi Berra

She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when."

-P.G. Wodehouse

And pictures of a guy with a "pet" bear.