daylight_darknight: (Jim Henson)
"This evening in the twilight's gloom
a butterfly flew in my room
oh what beauty, oh what grace
who needs visitors from outer space"


The Butterfly by Spike Milligan



daylight_darknight: (Jim Henson)
I have to stop listening to Spike Milligan. It's going to make my writing weirder than it already it.


"I woke up this morning and I was still alive, so I am pretty cheerful."

“I thought I'd begin by reading a sonnet by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.”

“This silent call you make, A silence so loud I fear the world knows it's meaning If you fill every corner of a room Where can I look? If I close my eyes the silence becomes louder! There is no escape from you The only way out is in”

"I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; I left my shoes and socks there - I wonder if they're dry?"

“For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string.”

“It's all in the mind, you know.”
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