Paul Shepheard said this quote

Everything is emotional because hope is… When I talk to people I no longer see rational beings engaged in rational discourse, I see objects, emoting. It has made me such a deep materialist that I see everything as objects, people, dogs, trees, rocks- objects that burn with the animation of hope, each engaged in their own private miracle of being. And the things that people make, the buildings and machines, the paintings and the poems, are artificial miracles, which glow from the light borrowed from their makers.

~ Paul Shepheard

Getting older is a question of coming to terms with the fact that you’ll never know the secrets, and the resulting equilibrium is what gives the illusion of actually knowing them.

~ Paul Shepheard