09/29/11

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why. –Kurt Vonnegut

09/27/11

There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle--to do nothing at all. -Sydney Smith

09/22/11

Only the good doubt their own goodness, which is what makes them good in the first place. The bad know they are good, but the good know nothing. They spend their lives forgiving others, but they can't forgive themselves. -Paul Auster

09/21/11

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. -William Faulkner

09/20/11

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stone-cutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it would split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before together. -Jacob A. Riis

09/19/11

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. -William James

09/16/11

THE MAGIC AND THE DANGER OF FICTION IS THIS: it allows us to see through other eyes. It takes us to places we have never been, allows us to care about, worry about, laugh with, and cry for people who do not, outside of the story, exist. There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong. -Neil Gaiman

09//15/11

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you. -Harlan Ellison

09/14/11

I have great faith in fools--self confidence my friends call it. -Edgar Allan Poe

09/13/10

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. -Thomas Merton

09/02/11

Why is it that one can look at a lion or a planet or an owl or at someone's finger as long as one pleases, but looking into the eyes of another person is, if prolonged past a second, a perilous affair? -Walker Percy

09/01/11

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature. -Jean Cocteau