Being and nothingness ... on a very small scale!

"An atom has a diameter of about 0.00000001 cm. The nucleus [at the centre] has a diameter of about 0.0000000000001 cm. If we had an atom and wished to see the nucleus, we would have to magnify it until the whole atom was the size of a large room, and then the nucleus would be a bare speck which you could just about make out with the eye, but very nearly all the weight of the atom is in that infinitesimal nucleus."

                        ... Richard Feynman (1918-1988), theoretical physicist

Tender is the Butterfly

"… his talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Later he became conscious of his damaged wings and of their construction and he learned to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone and he could only remember when it had been effortless."

   ... excerpt from A Moveable Feast (posthumus 1964 edition),  Hemingway (1899-1961) on Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

The Moving Finger writes ...

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.

 ... Omar Khayyam (1048-1131), Persian poet

All About George

"Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck."

   ... George Sanders (1906-72), actor [suicide note]