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"In twilight, our vision switches gradually from the cones that the eye uses to see colour to the rods, which only see black and white but are more sensitive to shapes. It really is a time of visual transformation. That´s why you get that weird things-are-not-quite-what-they-seem feeling." From The Gringo Trail, by Mark Mann.

"Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four, or five times more? Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless..." From The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles

"Nature is a Haunted House--but Art--a House that tries to be haunted.” Emily Dickinson

"The music of the world finds its way more easily into this heart grown less secure. Finally stripped bare, the slightest solitary tree becomes the most tender and fragile of images." Albert Camus

"We travel, some of us, to slip through the curtain of the ordinary, and into the presence of whatever lies just outside our apprehension." Pico Ayer

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