February 2010
52 posts
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
– J.D. Salinger, RIP
January 2010
22 posts
8. Drift.
Allow yourself to wander aimlessly. Explore adjacencies. Lack judgment. Postpone criticism.
I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down everyone will understand because they are the same that far down.
-Jack Kerouac
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous...
– Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
We are all of us sentenced to solitary confinement in our own skins” on my...
– Tennessee Williams
My knees buckled, I went down to the floor. I cried in English, I cried in...
– Miranda July
I don’t love you as if you were a rose of salt, topaz
or arrow of carnations...
– Pablo Neruda
Somewhere You are actual. Happen to me there.
– Mookie Katigbak
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
– Albert Camus
Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. We get very...
– William Saroyan
We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us...
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime & Punishment
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
– Eleanor Roosevelt