I’ll tell you a riddle. You’re waiting for a train, a train that will take you far away. You know where you hope this train will take you, but you don’t know for sure. But it doesn’t matter. How can it not matter to you where that train will take you?
Mal, Inception
“It’s not that students don’t “get” Kafka’s humor, but that we’ve taught them to see humor as something you get–the same way we’ve taught them that a self is something you just have. No wonder they cannot appreciate the really central Kafka joke: that the horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from that horrific struggle. That our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our home.”
— David Foster Wallace, “Some Remarks on Kafka’s Funniness” (via kafkaesque-world)
We need to be supportive. That’s what people do outside of Manhattan.
Joanna, Stepford Wives (film)
Some of the best were left behind, along with the best parts of who we were.
secretive dreams 