“To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.”
― Aldous Huxley
Every Man is Napoleon
Category Archives: Photography
Twinges of Longing
“And only the enlightened can recall their former lives; for the rest of us, the memories of past existences are but glints of light, twinges of longing, passing shadows, disturbingly familiar, that are gone before they can be grasped, like the passage of that silver bird on Dhaulagiri.”
― Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard
Having No Goal
“When someone seeks,” said Siddhartha, “then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.”
― Herman Hesse, Siddhartha
Little Scraps of Wisdom
“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.”
― Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum
Wet Epoxy No Entry
“I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.”
― Marcel Duchamp
Is That Steve McQueen?
“When I did The Great Escape, I kept thinking, ‘If they were making a movie of my life, that’s what they’d call it—the great escape.'”
—-Steve McQueen
Pillar and River Bottoms
“She didn’t need to understand the meaning of life; it was enough to find someone who did, and then fall asleep in his arms and sleep as a child sleeps, knowing that someone stronger than you is protecting you from all evil and all danger”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida
My Bike on the Bridge
“People will pay any price for motion. They will even work for it. Look at bicycles.”
― William Faulkner, The Reivers
On the Margaret McDermott bridge bike/pedestrian path, over the Trinity River, Dallas, Texas
It is the Journey That Matters
“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
Margaret McDermott bridge, bike/pedestrian path, Dallas, Texas
Pedestrian
“I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.”
― John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir
Margaret McDermott bridge, pedestrian path, Dallas, Texas
Bill Chance 