Merrill Mill

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. (Umberto Eco)

But at my back I always hear Time’s winged chariot hurrying near. (Andrew Marvell)

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. (Galileo Galilei)

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. (Anais Nin)

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. (James Branch Cabell)