01/22/08

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it. -Neil Gaiman

01/18/08

If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself. -Charles M. Schulz

01/17/08

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it. -James Baldwin

01/16/08

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading toward success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good. -Vaclav Havel

01/15/08

God has given each person a capacity to reach some end. True, some are endowed with more talent than others, but God has left none of us talentless. -Martin Luther King, Jr.

01/14/08

Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion. I've seen them doing it. Words set up atmospheres, electrical fields, charges. I've felt them doing it. Words conjure. I try not to be careless about what I utter, write, sing. I'm careful about what I give voice to. -Toni Cade Bambara

01/10/08

The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before. -Neil Gaiman

01/09/08

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. -J.K. Rowling

01/08/08

That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not. -James Kern Feibleman

01/07/08

I once listed all the good things I did over the past year, and then turned them into resolution form and backdated them. That was a good feeling. -Robert Fulghum