Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience. - John Updike

Man is a mechanism for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.

...golf appeals to the idiot in us, and the child. … Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

Zeus had loved his old friend, and lifted him up, and set him among the stars as the constellation Sagittarius. Here, in the Zodiac, now above, now below the horizon, he assists in the regulation of our destinies, though in this latter time few living mortals cast their eyes respectfully toward Heaven, and fewer still sit as students to the stars.