Sophie's World

It's a nice place to be

All these things that swim into the mind, like quiet idle fishes, accompanying us soundlessly for a day, a year, and in another sense for ever, divide themselves into a small select category of bits and quotations-images too-which we can summon from the vast deep by an effort of the memory or will; and the much larger, more mysterious anonymous crowd which slips into consciousness quite unbidden.

—John Bayley