Boy, you got me confused with a man who repeats himself.

Omar Little (Michael K. Williams), The Wire

I have a soul free and entirely its own, and accustomed to guide itself after its own fashion; having hitherto never had either master or governor imposed upon me: I have walked as far as I would, and at the pace that best pleased myself; this is it that has rendered me unfit for the service of others, and has made me of no use to any one but myself.

Michel de Montaigne

When you don't know where you're going, any road can get you lost.


A riff on Lewis Carroll

The world is full of ways and means to waste time.


Haruki Murakami, Dance, Dance, Dance

He did not think he was fleeing from anything behind him, nor, most importantly, towards anything in front of him; in other words he fully accepted the paradox implied in the conclusion that his movements had direction but no aim.

László Krasznahorkai, The Melancholy of Resistance