The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
-Dorothy Nevill

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know. --W.H. Auden

While you weren't listening, all our love songs became sad songs.

Your absence has gone through me like a needle; everything I do is stitched with its color. - W.S. Merwin

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. ~ Henry Adams

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

"Out beyond ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing there is a field. I'll meet you there."
- Rumi

You remember and dwell on all the things you've lost and ignore all the things you haven't. Because your scars are like stars. Yet the night stays perfectly black.


A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.

When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty. It may not sound nice to some bunch of little old ladies at an afternoon tea party, but it helps my soldiers to remember. You can't run an army without profanity; and it has to be eloquent profanity. An army without profanity couldn't fight its way out of a piss-soaked paper bag. ... As for the types of comments I make, sometimes I just, By God, get carried away with my own eloquence.
-George Patton

A moral being is one who is capable of comparing his past and future actions or motives, and of approving or disapproving of them.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

If my heart was a compass, you’d be North

No one should have to dance backward all of their lives.

Yet, no matter how accurately you write it or mumble it under your breath, it won't change the way things stand between you. A poem, let alone a paragraph, is not a magic spell. And the only people who can write those stay in padded rooms, listening to music no one's ever played.

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
-Oscar Wilde

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
- Frank Moore Colby

And you keep whispering the same story to yourself "I'll be unhappy now because that'll make me happy later. Because that's how a story works." So your happiness will always happen later, never now. Life isn't a story. Life is chaos.

"When you trust your point of view, that's when you start taking pictures." - Annie Leibovitz

Silence is often misinterpreted, but never misquoted.

When a woman behaves like a man, why doesn't she behave like a nice man? ~Edith Evans

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.

You constantly look for a sign and when it's given to you and you don't like the answer, you call it a coincidence. There are no coincidences.

"Who has never killed an hour? Not casually or without thought, but carefully: a premeditated murder of minutes. The violence comes from a combination of giving up, not caring, and a resignation that getting past it is all you can hope to accomplish. So you kill the hour. You do not work, you do not read, you do not daydream. If you sleep it is not because you need to sleep. And when at last it is over, there is no evidence: no weapon, no blood, and no body. The only clue might be the shadows beneath your eyes or a terribly thin line near the corner of your mouth indicating something has been suffered, that in the privacy of your life you have lost something and the loss is too empty to share."
--Mark Z. Danielewski

In case you touch me by accident. In case you don't on purpose. More hope than heaven (more sadness than soil).

"Call no man foe, but never love a stranger." - Stella Benson

You could ink yourself until everyone knows all the things you love. You could wear uniforms that gave you all the authority in the world. Lose weight until there was nothing left. Paint the face. Suck in your gut.
But in the dark, stripped down to your bones, all that remains is you.

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can love. - Zelda Fitzgerald

"Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling it to other people." - Spencer Johnston

Fine. Maybe I'm the puzzle. But you're still the pieces.

"La meilleure des choses à faire, n'est-ce pas, quand on est dans ce monde, c'est d'en sortir ? Fou ou pas, peur ou pas."

I cannot pretend I will not surrender to these dreams in my head.

_{The moon is dark and I can't sleep}

"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center." Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Sometimes a boy wrapped in tinfoil is better than a knight in shining armour.

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

"Imagination is intelligence with an erection."
--Victor Hugo

"Art for art's sake does wonderful things to you. It makes you laugh. It makes you cry. It makes you want to take naps and go places wearing funny pants." - the nanowrimo.org FAQ

"My life - my own Discovery Channel"

Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble.

"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world."
--Arthur Schopenhauer

You think you’re waiting for help. For someone to tell you what the right thing to do is. Even though, at the back of your mind, you already know what that is. So all you’re really waiting for, is a time when you’re forced to do it.

Truth is beautiful, without a doubt; but so are lies. -- Emerson

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
-Robert Frost

"With enough courage, you can do without a reputation."

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
-William Jennings Bryant

"Where there is great love, there are always wishes."

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
-Blaise Pascal

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

In order to laugh, you must be able to play with your pain. -Annette Goodheart

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
-Abraham Lincoln

"You either change things or you don't. Excuses rob you of power and induce apathy."

"To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be."
Anna Louise Strong

It's when you hold eye contact for that second too long or maybe the way you laugh. It sets off a flash and our memories take a picture of who we are at that point when we first know "This is love." And we clutch that picture to our hearts because we expect each other to always be the people in that picture. But people change. People aren't pictures. And you can either take a new picture or throw the old one away.

So you look for patterns because that's what humans do to try and make sense of things. In hope of some divine order. And you look in movies and songs and the things that you read for symbols, points and swirls that match your own. But the only real pattern there is, is the one you make when you hold up a mirror. And reflect.

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

These bite marks are the dusted finger prints of memories I can’t forget. Impressions you’ve made and regret. You marked your territory and disappeared. Like that used condom - I’m in the trash can with all your other broken things.

Love is the person you think about during the sad songs.

"Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back."
-Chinese Proverb

If we wanted to feel better we'd stop.

You can never lose yourself so much that I won't find you. And remind you of what it felt like to be here.

“We look at the people who tell the truth, who say real things in public, like they’re confused. Crazy. As if everything should be said safely or not at all and what you feel shouldn’t be taken seriously.
Which is why it’s not polite to say 'I’m going to kiss you now because I can’t do anything else.' "

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way. - Bertrand Russell

Thousands have lived without love, but not one without water.

If living conditions don't stop improving in this country, we're going to run out of humble beginnings for our great men.
- Russell P. Askue

I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited. - Silvia Plath

If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.
- Paul Beatty

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

"Laughter echoes, it cries, it forms a bond and a wall all in the same moment."

No matter what happens, there is always someone who knew it would.

"A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us."
--Franz Kafka

When you’re in love with someone, that person is the lighthouse of your universe.

As soon as things start being the way they should be instead of the way they are, I’ll start telling them to you that way.

“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.” -Neil Gaiman

Since my last report, your child has reached rock bottom and has started to dig.

What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

She didn't only walk on the wild side - it was her permanent mailing address.

Sad thing is, you can still love someone and be wrong for them. - Elvis Presley

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions. - Augusten Burroughs

Isn't it weird eating fast food sober? Like, I'll eat it and I'll be like, "Oh that's good". But when you're blacked out at like 5 in the morning, it's like "What is this?! What five star resturaunt are we at? What chef works here?! ARE WE IN NARNIA? What magic treat has entered my hand? Where is our wardrobe?!"

“You had the sadness and too much of it. There’s no chemo for that except time.”

And if you can't say yes, answer anyway. Because I'd rather live with the answer than die with the question.

"Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to.'"
-Jim Jarmusch

When Sade was not considered an author, what was the status of his papers? Simply rolls of paper onto which he ceaselessly uncoilded his fantasies during his imprisonment.

Properly speaking, there is no such thing as revenge. Revenge is an act which you want to commit when you are powerless and because you are powerless: as soon as the sense of impotence is removed, the desire evaporates also.

You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts.

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

"There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be it Baptist/Unitarian, Irish/Italian/Octogenarian/Zen Buddhist, Zionist/Seventh-day Adventist, Women's Lib/Republican, Mattachine/FourSquareGospel feels it has the will, the right, the duty to douse the kerosene, light the fuse. Every dimwit editor who sees himself as the source of all dreary blanc-mange plain porridge unleavened literature, licks his guillotine and eyes the neck of any author who dares to speak above a whisper or write above a nursery rhyme."
—Ray Bradbury

I got in a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, 'I'm going to mop the floor with your face.' I said, 'You'll be sorry.' He said, 'Oh, yeah? Why?' I said, 'Well, you won't be able to get into the corners very well.'

I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.

I think I've discovered teh secret of life - you just hand around until you get used to it.

The cure for eveything is salt water: Sweat, tears, or the sea.

"You're so dead I don't know why you bothered being born." --The Darkness, Image Comics

Morality is doing what's right, no matter what you're told.
Religion is doing what you're told, no matter what's right.

Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy.
-Henry Miller

"I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens while you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it." -Neil Gaiman

Life is too short to suffocate, too long to be held breathless.

As honest as the day is long, only not as bright.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

"Go to Heaven for the climate, and Hell for the company." -Mark Twain

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about. Doping yourself with sex or drugs or food, or choosing something like writing, body building, gardening. True, in a way this is trading one compulsive behavior for another, but at least with the new one, you're choosing it.

Funny, but all my former junkie friends are either fervent Christians or triathletes. Nothing in half measures.

May a happy star always light your path~ Chinese Proverb

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.

"If I had a dime for everytime that I was wrong, I'd be broke."

but test all [things], hold fast to the good

"My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whinning about for years." -Kurt Cobain

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.

"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers.The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify them, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do." -Jack Kerouac

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."- Mark Twain

"The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson."

"There has been no case in history where the pioneer became the dominant producer. The most successful innovators are the creative imitators, the Number Two."

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to work in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

Kissing is like drinking salted water: you drink and your thirst increases. (Chinese Prover

"There was a star danced, and under that was I born." ~Beatrice

"Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them."~Albert Einstein

"You are the misplaced comma in the grammar of my evening."

With out laughter, we would be at the mercy of our sorrows.

"At every moment, we all have one foot in a fairy tale, and the other in the abyss...."
-Paulo Coleho

Just 'cause you feel it, doesn't mean it's there.

"On a scale of one to dead, that was about a four...."

Art is useless, but so is happiness.

'The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane'
Marcus Aurelius

Brave is the man that knows his own guilts.

Art is a hammer to beat the world, not a mirror to reflect it.
Vladmir Majakovskij

“I drink to stay warm, and to kill selected memories...”
-Connor Oberst

Not only do I not know what's going on, I wouldn't know what to do about it if I did. -George Carlin

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
-Carlos Castaneda

we will be remembered more for what we destroy than for what we create.

Here the prophets walked, their words flashing like forked lightning.

smiling fights the lonely monster

We believe in skinker jams high off the deck, a bomber net, the cresent moon, your partner's whoop, sand-washing the frying pan, road trips, one-swing sticks, remembering to breathe, alpine starts (more for the alpen glow then the early hour), espresso in the desert, the plungestep, lenticular cloudcaps, rest days, the focus of a run out, a cold beer at the end of it all.
If you believe in these things too, JOIN US.

If God is dead, who gets his house?

Without money, we'd all be rich.

Nothing is static.
Everything is evolving.
Everything is falling apart.

The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
-Banksy

"If it had not been for the discontent of a few who had not been satisfied with their condition we would still be living in caves. Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization." -Eugene Debs

My hand thinks I'm an artist, but my heart knows i'm a poet.

"My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists."
Jean Rostand

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects."

That is the BEST COMMENT I have ever recieved. I shall frame it.

There is a hurricane headed for eastern Canada, right now. Hurricane Noel. Hurricanes always die down before they reach Halifax. But I wish I were back there anyway. Even died down, it means wind and leaves and dark clouds. I haven't talked to my brother Adrian since I left home. We email back and forth on Facebook, and I showed him the final draft of my new novel, which is about him. But I haven't heard his voice in months. Now there's a hurricane coming. If I were back in Halifax now, I would fill my backpack with beer, and I would put on a warm jacket, and I would call my brother up.

The trick to finding a happy ending is knowing where to stop the story.

Anguish and fear have never been so much fun.

Call me uptight but I'm also against using the word "fag" aimed at me in some joking, campy way to demonstrate how comfortable you are with my being gay. This has happened to me. It's like a folksy gay-bashing without the exclamation point of the beatings.

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

this is not about me.
this isn't about art.
this isn't about my hobbies.
this is not about my favorite band.
this is about free flow.
this is about no restriction.
this is the torrent (or trickle) that is my mind flow.
this is what happens when you don't stop to think.

To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.

Feeling about as vain and sexy as an over-the-hill, overweight, overeducated, yet under-employed, naked man with a pair of cola bottle bottoms for eyeglasses and an insignificant, no matter how erect, protrusion of flesh between the legs possibly can, I decided to write. Did I mention hairy?

"If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged."

"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.-St. Catherine

If he'd known how the world worked he never would have broken his heart over it.
-John Clellon Holmes,
speaking about Jack Kerouac

you will learn how to help yourself.
it will break your heart, and it will make you strong.

We lived on beer and kisses, all hopped up on love and foam.-Amy Rigby

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill theirs.

It isn't what the book costs. It's what it will cost you if you don't read it.

I went to bed that night in the lonely hotel room. I could not sleep, and then, in the gray light between darkness and dawn, the words came to me line by line, stanza by stanza. I lay perfectly still, and the words came sweeping on with the rhythm of marching feet, pauseless, resistless. I saw the long line swinging into place before my eyes. I heard the voice of a nation speaking through my lips.

In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. -George Bernard Shaw

Frank,
I saw you speak this week at UK. You said "the children the world almost break become the adults who save it". That is my secret. Thank you for giving it voice. I did not break. I did survive and now I am a therapist working with the most disturbed, most abused, but the most incredible children. I believe they can all be saved. I believe they are all worth saving. I am trying one at a time.

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
-Ralph W. Sockman

When I look at you, English becomes my second language.

No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid, but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid.

If you live in a major city of america. I probably was there getting drunk at underground venues. Look under toilets against the wall. You'll find my name there.
This even includes asheville north carolina.

"Ruin them. Wreck their lives. Then build them cubicles to end their days in. Hushaby. Lullaby. Die, dog. Little dog, die."

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing the one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind..."

There is some sadness in it -- there has to be, so that the happiness in it will matter.

"It's my party and I'll cry if I want to!"
William Shakespeare

"The ending is brilliant. Seriously. I might get that inscribed on my casket someday so God will understand."

Granted our streets are the suburbs, but you know. We have streets in suburbs!

Life is full of horror; nobody escapes, nobody; save yourself. Whatever pulls on you, whatever needs from you, threatens you. Don't be afraid; people are so afraid; don't be afraid to live in the raw wind, naked, alone... Learn at least this: What you are capable of. Let nothing stand in your way.

I would rather be ashes than dust, a spark burnt out in a brilliant blaze
Than be stifled in dry rot…For man's chief purpose is to live , not to exist,
I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them; I shall use my time.
Jack London 1876-1916

I will not waste my days trying to prolong them.

Reality is a thin layer between what you see and what you want to.

"...just 'cause you feel it doesn't mean it's there..."

"The Knower of Truth should go about the world outwardly stupid like a child, a madman or a devil." - Mahavakyaratnamala

"Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and you are the mirror." -Kahlil Gibran

Maybe I am a prophet. Not just me, all of us who are dying now. Maybe we've caught the virus of prophecy... Be still, toil no more. Maybe the world has driven God from heaven and incurred the angel's wrath. I believe I've seen the end of things, and having seen I'm going blind as prophets do; it makes a certain sense to me. And if I hate heaven my only resistance is to run. -Angels in America

...without love, without anger, without sorrow, breath is just a clock ticking

-God Creates-Creative People-
-Creative People-Create Gods-

These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have other ones.
-Marx, Groucho

"Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold -- but so does a hard-boiled egg."

"They must find it difficult, those who have taken the authority as truth, rather than truth as the authority."
-Gerald Massey

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.

Whenever I say we should do something sometime, I'm secretly hoping you'll say 'Why not now?'

Fun game: find a combination of two items that most freaks out the cashier.
Winner: pregnancy test and single coat hanger.

That shirt looks good on you, but it would look even better stuffed into the neck of a vodka bottle and flung burning through our office building's window. Let's fucking do it and never look back.

Monopoly's just a game, Senator... I'm trying to control the fucking world.

No, no angst. After D101 and Ice I'd like to try something a little lighter. It's more adventure themed. Diana Wynne Jones meets Gilmore Girls. With unicorns.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. — Plato

"It doesn't matter what you believe in if you think everyone else is wrong" -
Matthew Good

Fun game: try to post a YouTube comment so stupid that people realize you must be joking.
(Hint: this is impossible)

But still. Still bless me anyway. I want more life. I can't help myself. I do. I've lived through such terrible times and there are people who live through much worse. But you see them living anyway. When they're more spirit than body, more sores than skin, when they're burned and in agony, when flies lay eggs in the corners of the eyes of their children - they live. Death usually has to take life away. I don't know if that's just the animal. I don't know if it's not braver to die, but I recognize the habit; the addiction to being alive. So we live past hope. If I can find hope anywhere, that's it, that's the best I can do. It's so much not enough. It's so inadequate. But still bless me anyway. I want more life. And if he [God] comes back, take him to court. He walked out on us, he oughta pay.
-Prior Walter

All's fair in love and allegory, my dear. Now listen close.

"As leaves are to limbs, so are your words to your soul." -Mark Z. Danielewski

would that i were bold enough
to face my fears bare-footed.

"One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams."
-Dali

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities."

i'm really excited.
i don't think
i have ever been loved
before...
...
at least not secretly.

And you say, 'Oh my god! Am I here all alone?'

In the 60's, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.

"Maybe it's in the basement, let me go up stairs and check." - M.C Escher

I wish I could convey the feeling I got, scrolling down my page and seeing that. Eyebrows peaked inward, trickle of cool water behind the sternum, feeling of warm vaccuum in centre of chest, heart gave a few stronger beats. Just, that feeling alone made my day. I miss you too.

What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.


morning comes in the dream before we rise
when we linger side by side

.i dont care about destroying what i can't have, i prefer to save whats mine.

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong!

All that glitters has a high refractive index

Better to have tried for greatness and failed than to have attempted normality and succeeded. - Aaron Blomberg

Inhale

Take in as much air as you can. This story should last about as long as you can hold your breath, and then just a little bit longer.

So listen as fast as you can.

Kind of makes your biological clock rust to pieces and quietly excuse itself from the room, doesn't it?

Maybe that's just because I don't like cold people and in my head everyone's kind of like me but with a different haircut, y'know?

There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream - whatever that dream might be.

She usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful and life was so short. - Brian Andreas

To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

PBR — tastes like shit, but it tastes like home.

I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

"You look like I just shot your mom. In the face. With my *penis*. Dude. What's up with that?"

Sticks and stones are hard on bones, aimed with angry art. Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

Needing someone is like needing a parachute. If they aren't there the first time you need them, chances are you won't be needing them again.

It's not even funny anymore. It's so far from funny, it's funny for the second time. It skipped right over its first time.

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

It's one of the best things about his life, actually; long stretches of nothing but self-indulgence are exactly his cup of tea. Or, more accurately, whiskey.

P as in echo, A as in eagle.

Home is where I work and I work everywhere. Alfred Nobel

"yeah, they talk about her
she smiles like she's so tough
she says, hey, can talk a little louder?
i don't think my heart is broken enough."

".. and in each others shadow, we grow less and less tall.."

"If there is no God, why be good?" he asks rhetorically, and responds: "Do you really mean the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward? That's not morality, that's just sucking up."

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

It's not so bad. I'm sure Pluto doesn't think of us as a valid planet, either.

"...It all comes together when you walk out of the bar and look up at the stars and realize that life aint nothing but love—and thats just fine."
The Dream Flags- Stone Windows

Shake the fear that always clawing
Pulls me clawing down alone
As I spitting splitting bloodred
Breaking windows in my heart
And the past is taunting
Fear of ghosts
Is forcing me apart

"I'd like to build you a boat to survive the river of tears I'm crying for you, but the world's smallest violin isn't the best source of lumber, and anyway that cross you're nailing yourself to looks pretty bouyant."

"Those two boys are so far into the closet that they found next years christmas presents.
Personally, I think they're living in Narnia by now"

The more sufficiently you leave your mind open the more junk people can throw into it.

Fate seems to be against me. I think I shall befriend Destiny then.

"I've been sent. By the Powers That Be."
"Powers that be what?"

"It's kinda like walking out a door to discover it's a window..."

"It is our destiny to attempt the impossible, to accomplish great deeds regardless of fear."

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
--Albert Einstein

Let me die, the moment my love dies.
They whisper.
Let me not out-live my own capacity to love.
They whisper.
Let me die still loving and so, never die.

"Every age has its dark magic. What's the difference between a curse and cursor?"

"Yes, he thought again, he would come back. He would buy further scraps of beautiful rubbish. He would buy the engraving of St. Clement's Dane, take it out of its frame, and carry it home concealed under the jacket of his overalls. He would drag the rest of that poem out of Mr. Charrington's memory. Even the lunatic project of renting the room upstairs flashed through his mind again. For perhaps five seconds exaltation made him careless, and he stepped out onto the pavement without so much as a preliminary glance through the window. He had even started humming an inmpovised tune."

-1984, George Orwell

"The gods are not deserving of reproof because of this work of skill: a good bridge is Bifrost, but nothing in this world is of such nature that it may be relied on forever."
-Prose Edda

It is dangerous to hold men back from death. I feel it is unhappiness which drives him to meditate on the moon. I want to give him life and adventure, but I cannot convey to him that it is the mood, not the places, the relationships, which can light up shabby hotel rooms, stained cafe tables, brimming noisy streets, sour wine."
-Anais Nin

"You lie so well," he says sadly.
"I only lie as doctors do, for the good of their patients."

I do not do to others what was done to me.

He wanted to utter an angry denial, but she was smiling at him as if this were merely a conversational joke, and he had no capacity for the sort of conversations which were not supposed to be meant, so he did not answer.
-Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand

If joy is the aim and the core of existance, she thought, and if that which has the power to give one joy is always guarded as one's deepest secret, then they had seen each other naked in that moment.

"Whatever we are, it's we who move the world and it's we who'll pull it through."

She remembered the love the man she loved bore her, and joy came back into her soul, and with a smile of happiness she put her head on the pillow. 'I'm sorry, I'm sorry; but what could I do? It's not my fault,' she said to herself; but an inner voice spoke otherwise.
-Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy

And faith and freedom are inextricably linked: It is not for priests or pastors or presidents or kings to compel belief, for to do so tresspasses on each individual's God-given liberty of min and heart. If the Lord himself chose not to force obedience from those he created, then who are men to try?
-Jon Meacham

"Why do you persist in messing things up? I have never been a communist."
"But I have, and I believe it's premature, but rational, and it has a future, as Christianity had in the first centuries."
-Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy

What a day this has been
What a rare mood I'm in
Why it's almost like
being in love.

"There was nothing in the dark that wasn't there when the lights were on."

"Hate is just a kind of love you give to people who suck."

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.

"Yes, they're sharing a drink they call loneliness
But it's better than drinking alone"

Parce que moi je rève, moi je ne suis pas.

Curve: The loveliest distance between two points. ~Mae West

"If everyone jumped off a bridge, would you?"
"No, I'd step off onto the pile of bodies."

You either bathe in the light or embrace the darkness. You...can drown while bathing, but not many have died from hugs.

"None of this will matter when none of you are matter!"

To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, 'There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.'" -Ansel Adams

take only pictures
leave only footprints
kill only time.

"She is a problem for me like a porch light is a problem for a moth."

Above all else, let us love each other, because love covers over a multitude of sins.

"Talent is like the shooter that hits a target the others can't reach; genius is like the shooter that hits a target the others can't see." -- Schopenhauer

"Why do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves up."

The doctor asked him what he was afraid of
Just what was he running from
He said "It's not a fear of success
Or of closeness
But of going through life
Feeling numb."


"Hope is the hat rack, which I hang my dreams upon."

"We'll make them regret undooming themselves."

As long as there are people in this world, there will be food for cannibals.

The world will make you suffer. But be brave! I have defeated the world - John 16:33

"Dancing is silent poetry."
- Simonides (556-468bc)

The only thing I've ever won was a mediocrity contest, and even then I only got the silver medal.

"Women think with their vaginas!!!"

You build worlds of steel and stone, I build worlds of words alone...

Every sandwich is proof that man may not live by bread alone. -Church Billboard

I wonder what stars wish for when they see shooting people...

Someday I'll meet someone
Whose heart joins with mine
Aortas and arteries all intertwined
They'll beat so much stronger
Than they could apart
Eight chambers of muscle to hustle
The love in our heart
--Urinetown: the musical

'One day, I shall come back. Yes, I shall come back. Until then, there must be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties. Just go forward in all your beliefs, and prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine.'

"I'm always right. However, this pisses off the universe so it shifts often to make it appear as though I was wrong... You ought to know this by now."

It's an indoor joke.

If you want to live an interesting life, you're going to spend half of it being terrified.
-Mary Hollinshead

"Hold on, didn't we slaughter you guys?"
"... ...No."
"No, I'm pretty sure we did."
"SILENCE! It is WE you have captured you. Again!"
"Yeah, how'd that work out for you guys last time? Oh right, slaughter."

You're such an inspiration for the ways that I will never ever choose to be.

Emotions are just hormones
The heart is only a muscle
and life is simply trying not to die.

I am what I am and that's all I can be

"Time is meaningless and endless and boundless. It matters not, it bendeth to the will, it dreams and slows and loops. Unless of course you have to be somewhere."

Upon being told by Lady Astor, "If you were my husband, I'd put poison in your tea.":
If I were your husband, I’d drink it!
-Winston Churchhill-

Emotions are like those cheap emo-kids: none of them are really as original as they like to tell everyone.

Grace - God's Redemtion At Christ's Expense.

No liquid eye, no pulpy

soft as shit window to the soul...

I will stampede the pastoral,

tusking sentiment

"Reality bites with a variety of sizes of teeth"-Tony Follari

"Happiness is just a word to me and it might have meant a thing or two if I'da known the difference."

possible until proven impossible

"We work in the dark- we do what we can- we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. All the rest is the madness of art."-Henry James

it's amazing

the difference

a bit of sky can make.

"...and then I went and stabbed him! So I'd be careful, Mr. Johnson, I will stab my meat."

In the glitter, in the dark, sunk into velvet

Praying this will never end

In the shadow of a star, in static pallor

I realized I never began

When you've seen beyond yourself, then you will find peace of mind is waiting there. And the time will come when you see we're all one and life flows on within you and without you.

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

If meat is murder; then eggs are kidnapping, and milk is sexual harrassment.

i wish the community was fueled by anime devations and religious debate. we can just burn those up into an coal oven and keep operational for eons.

"Don't point that gun at him, he's an unpaid intern."

Who is "General Failure" and why is he reading my hard drive?

"Oh my patient prisoner you have waited for this day

and finally you are free! You are free! You are freezing."

Brevity is the soul of wit. Live fast, die young and leave a funny-looking corpse.

"It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace."- George Bernard Shaw

In living I found death, in dying I found what life truly is, now I walk & live as if I will die in the second and be swept up. There is more to life than breathing, and there is more to death than the stopping of breath.

" In order to not be touched, I don't touch.

Gradually I begin to not feel anything real."

a boulder is just a pebble with an attitude

"There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create."

Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867), Mon Coeur Mis a Nu, XXII

"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you be apt to deal with all problems as nails"

Abraham H. Maslow

"The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. "

I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.

all secrets sleep in winter clothes~

shine bright, thoughts are flashlights

It's as if Shakespeare himself were guiding our hands along a keyboard weege-board, laughing his ass off at the sap we come up with!

"Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere." - G.K. Chesterson

"If builders built buildings, the way programmers wrote programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilisation."

'Loneliness is a strange gift.' - E.B. White

And only trees, since the world was born,

have bowed to those who walk against the wind...

"I wrote the first faint line, faint, without substance, pure nonsence, pure wisdom of someone who knows nothing, and suddely I saw the heavens unfastened and open."--Pablo Neruda, The People's Poet, Chile (1914-1973)

There are no happy endings, because nothing ends

»Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly.«

Paranoia is faith in a hidden order behind the visible

Move it from your left to my right.
Thank you.
-Monty Cinner

"You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts... and in much of your talking, thinking is half-murdered."

La vida es corta, pero ancha.
[Life is short, but it is wide.] -- Mexican proverb.

"Thoughts are stronger than you think,
when you're stoned."

Man is the muffled apocalypse.

Twilight fades, through blistered Avalon
The sky's cruel torch, on aching autobahn
Into the uncertain divine, we scream into the last divine.

"Hate is baggage. Life's too short to be pissed off all the time. It's just not worth it."

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

"I'm not gonna say anything inspirational; I'm just gonna fucking swear a lot."

"It comes as a great shock to discover that the country which is your birthplace and to which you owe your life and identity has not, in its whole system of reality, evolved a place for you"
-James Baldwin

"you should trust yourself, you don't need to know what you're saying."

The world is your oyster, provided you like seafood.

I watched my aspirations crash into the ground, on the backs of the angels that I've slain.

My nose seems to be having a period.

That condition which in the subway is called congestion is termed "intimacy" in our best nightclubs.

One day your life is gonna flash before your eyes - make it worth watching

"To say sexual purity means lack of sexual activity is like saying pure water means lack of water." - J.M.Ellio

"Your Body is not the same as mine" - Roland Barthes

-I, personally, don't think looking like a girl is bad, I own a pink shirt and high heels. But would never wear a dress and lipstick. Unless it's for a joke... Which me and my friend planned to do for the first day of school next year.
-the perfect world would be if you two were dressing up and nobody in your school would laugh, you know?

YESTERDAY DON'T MEAN SHIT.

"better to be alone than in bad company"

what perspective man can respect himself? -- some dostoevsky guy

Melancholy is delicious even when it starts to spoil.

I'm nice. Honest. I have the heart of a little girl

in a jar
on my desk - Stephen king

....You are your own reality....

You hear their pinprick murmers,
In the quiet places...

Some say I'm a visionary, others just say I'm seeing things

I don't believe in no capitalist institution of marriage. I read my Emma Goldman.

This is right here where he stood
When he wrote those sacred words
And he made a holy vow
And these are the drawings and his library card
And this is the cow

Do you always lie?
Yes.

"The men loaded the magazines as if they were pouring a glass of wine; a gunshot instead of "cheers", a bullet instead of a hug."
- Gungrave, Episode 23.

"A sensation, aviation, deviation, E-Generation."

"Simplicity of equipment and an adventurous spirit in attacking the unfamiliar or unknown are apt to result in a primitive and vigorous art. Somehow the primitive is usually much stronger than art in which technique and flourish abound." -Alexander Calder

Don't try to sugarcoat bullshit. It still smells like shit. And you will still know what is truly sweet always.

["Efficiency is intelligent laziness.."]

"An atheist activist is no more tolerant than a religious extremist, he's just turned inside out."

I am not looking for a face. I am looking for a soul.
Searching for the meeting place where two parts make the whole.

A little joke, we're getting flirty
A little rope, we're getting dirty

I'll wear your skin as a suit, pretend to be you
your friends will like you more than they used to.

Live forever or die in the attempt.

Leaving in its tortuous wake vicious, cannabilistic, mutated, radiated and horribly disfigured hordes of satanic killers, bent on revenge.

and all the beautiful things that make you weep but don't have to make you weak

Whats talent? Is it something tasty?

Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked. "Where do you want to go?" responded the the Cheshire cat. "I don't know," Alice answered. "Then," said the cat, "It does not matter."

I am the constant, the invariant.

I am the darkness of your dreams.

There is nothing more fun than to paint your passion.

Trivial information is accumulating every second, preserved in all its triteness. Never fading, always accessible.

my eyes, desirous of beautiful things, and my soul, likewise, of its salvation, have no other means to rise to heaven but to gaze at all such things- michelangelo bounarroti

all people are shit bad trip tattoed on my brain

Daytime orphans join the circus.

Line the rope, and walk the wire.

There are neither any terminologies nor designated labels for these kind of things, just complex intricasies and explanations.

"Here's to Freedom

Here's to Art

Here's to Having an Excellent Adventure

And may the Stopping never Start"

-- Jason Mraz

When darkness surrounds me, I will make my own light.

Depression is not more soulful and artistic than happiness. Goth is not pretty. Life is far too short to be a cynic.

"But there comes a point in life, a moment. Where your mind outlives it's desires, it's obssions. When your habits survive your dreams, and when your loses...maybe death is a gift. You wonder." - David Gale "The Life of David Gale"

~If you're going to be original, you can count on being copied.~

"People keep telling me I should try new things. And then they look at me funny when I tell them I like Shrimp Peanutbutter Cold Noodle."

...the music here is grating and arrhythmic. the smoke pollutes my optic sensors.

"Maybe there's a god above, but all I ever learnt from love, was how to shoot at someone who out drew you, well its not a cry you can hear at night, its not somebody who's seen the light, it's a cold and it;s a broken hallelujah" -Leonard Cohen

Let me help you to pick up your dead

As the sins of the fathers are fed

With the blood of the fools and the thoughts of the wise

And from the pan under your bed

"Beware all those angels with their wings glued on."

#When They Come For Me I'll Be Sitting At My Desk With A Gun In My Hand Wearing A Bullet-Poof Vest, Singing 'My My My How The Time Does Fly When You Know You're Gonna Die By The End Of The Night#

"the hardest part about doing nothing is trying to explain yourself to people burdened with a life full of somethings"

Too many thoughts enter my mind to be printed; thus, my philosophical uniqueness is more often than not thrown out the veritable door and into the wilderness of confusion.

“Sounds of eternal conditions are all around us - night cries of ecstasy, the whispers of the dying, promises being made, and soft, disappointed weeping.”

"I feel it as i force it, serated edge through my flesh, cant see blood, cant feel pain, for a moment im invincible, my world comes crashing down as i feel a warm down drip, scars of temptation blister my my skin, this is not my weakness within, crimson falls on snow white skin."

If I speak I am condemned;

If I stay silent I am damned.

I used to have the whole world in my hands. But now I don't because my mom told me I'd go blind.

"You didn't have to do it but you did it to say that you didn't have to do it but you would anyway."

If life throws lemons at you, it can't have good intentions.

"Sometimes we don't do the things we want to do because we don't want others to know we want to do them."

"Well let the poets cry themselves to sleep"

"You're pretty.. you're pretty..you're pretty."

"You don't believe in anything!"
"Yes, yes I do I believe in.. anything!
Anything, anything is possible"

capitals are for capitalists

"Green thumb? Try green hands, lips and lungs"

"Resolve is never stronger than in the morning after it was never weaker."

I walk the fine line between genius and insanity like a drunk taking a sobriety test.

I'm not digging my own grave, I'm digging a hole to China. But I'm not stopping there, no sir. I'll keep digging all the way to the stars.
And if I should break the sky, so be it. The more pieces it falls into the more numerous the ways to put it back together. Nathan Shoultz

I do my thing,
And you do your thing.
I am not in this world
To live up to your expectations,
And you are not in this world
To live up to mine.
You are you and I am I,
And if by chance we find
Each other, it's beautiful.
-Dr. Frederick S.

God has fuck all to do with anything, but people keep bringing the topic up because they think it's important to tell other people what they think, that isnt going to change.

Ponchos are meant to hide your guns, not your pounds.

"An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all ... feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique – all these are in the middle." -Cézanne

If something doesn't work, don't make flower and fairy tales about "well, it would work if we were all happy little Jesus robots who only had sex after marraige".

My prices are CrAzY since my MERCHANDISE ate my SOUL!

This is wierd, man. There's footprints, without people in them! It's like it's them or something!

"Where will talent take you if you half-ass everything?"

My irish boy, East side twyn, (incestual) love of my life

"... so if we hadn't killed them, then they would have just gone and killed us!"

"That isn't very stable moral ground..."

"I know. Thats why you have to run across it so quickly"

"I'm drowning here! And you're describing the water!"

"Sleeping Beauty, he said. I like you this way."

DON'T PUSH ME! I HAVE A PILL TO MY WRIST!

There's more to life than numbers and neuropyhsics... There's rock 'n' roll, saving the world, and getting the girl in the end.

What's 'unique,' Latin for asshole?

Life is but a video game with good graphics. And I'm the only fool without a memory card.

As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. - Henry Louis Mencken

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explaination is that I was made for another world. ~ C.S. Lewis

Also- "Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy"

It's nice to know there is laughter on the other end of a million miles of cable.

"Why if something it not reality, must we destroy it?"

-"There is no problem so big that it cannot be run away from."

-You just quoted Snoopy the Dog, I believe...

-I'll quote the truth where I find it, thank you.

Bottle caps; Tangled twine; could anything be more divine?

"There aint no such thing as a free lunch." - R. A. Heinlein
The important thing to remember about that statment is that it contains a double negative.

and he said to me, "I hate working two jobs, I never get to butcher anyone anymore. I just kill em and bury em in the plot behind my house. it's just like sometimes you forget it's the little things that make life worth living"

And all this science, I don't understand...it's just my job 5 days a week.

To me, "scruples" are Russian money, and "morals" are paintings on walls.

sober driver, drunken cars

"The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision."

"And that's Jack. He thinks he's a god but he's so brain fried all the time he probably forgot his girlfriend's name. Or that she's really a guy."

We scottish have our own kung-fu. It's called, "F***K YOU!" and consists of mostly headbanging and kicking your foe when they pass out.

"To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance." --Oscar Wilde

Foolish are the people who play Twister on the stairs.

depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.

"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self." - Aldous Huxley

"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him." -Hu

"Substance is your strength. The true nature and depth of your search ignite the ink from black to blaze. The deep tread of a diver leaves the footprint of a man."

Take the time to pull the weeds, choking flowers in your life

even angels cast shadows

You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe. Its only after the "believers" have their faith shaken sufficiently that progress can start again...

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

Mmm, you should ask them to implant one of those singing birthday/Christmas-card microchips into your tit, so that the next time somebody mooshes it around, they'll be surprised with a muffled, bleeping version of "Frosty the Snowman".

'The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread' -Anatole France

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

From all other ills do mine differ. It pleaseth me; my ill is what I want and my suffering my health. My ill comes to me by my will; but I am so pleased to want thus that I suffer agreeably, and have so much joy in my pain that I am sick with delight.

"Oh yeah asthma camp was great. Spending nights singing rousing campfire songs 'round the humidifier. And playing follow the wheezer and inhaler roulette! One out of the six was filled with cat hair. Tricky game."

G is for greed
O is for order
V is for villains in the 3-piece suits defining the borders
E is for empire
R is for revenue
N is for not for me but none was
MENT was meant for you and me
- ima robot

"a watched pot never boils. a watched pot with a flame under it does."

It's kind of hard to go for an insanity plea when your client reloads.

"Gump was wrong!! Life isnt like a box of chocolates its more like a jar of jalapenos. What you do today, might burn your ass tomorrow."

LOVE IS ONLY GENERIC HATE

It all seems a terrible fuss over one person, and I agree with my friends who say Ms Mukhtaran's tribulations are not representative of all of Pakistan.
But her case has become a symbol, and symbols count. And it doesn't matter whether that involves good news or bad. It must be written.

Does the fish know it's wet?

I shake to keep steady

'Stop trying to figure out who's talented and who's not, and just take a shot at it, okay? Do some art. Tell anybody who asks that I said it was all right.'
--Emma Bull

Long after, and the night was again, shall I say, rather educational, he laughed at me eating apples in the bathtub. I was starving, of course, but I would have done it for the fact that it made him laugh.

We're running different races you and I, you can't win because I'm not competing against you.

There is no such thing as a tough child. If you boil them for 7 hours, they always come out tender.

The gene pool needs more chlorine.

found religion inside myself
i drank the blood, the flesh was stale

I have no doubt at all the devil grins,
as seas of ink I splatter.
Ye gods, forgive me for my literary sins-
The other kind don't matter.

I'm what your mother would have been if she'd never had kids

What came first? Man or God?

We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move. We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. We work with being, but non-being is what we use.

The beginning has been found.

A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking. -Arthur Block

Human beings are so stifled. I like my dog. He humps everything in sight and doesn't care who sees."

I'm so left it hurts.
- Rowan Moore

Même si je ne te vois pas
Je peux retrouver ce que l'on cherche dans la nuit,
même si c'est très difficile
je danserai mon chemin avec les loups.

Death is like sunset, which is only an appearance.
For what is sunset here is sunrise beyond...

The glass is always half-empty.
And cracked.
And I just cut my lip on it.
And chipped a tooth.

--Janeane Garofalo

He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares notis a slave.
-- Sir William Drummond

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.
-- Robertson Davies

Honest criticism is hard

*~-+Where did you go when you left today? Neverland. Peel back the skin for the kids to play. Neverland. Too lost to care for being found again..+-~*

You piece together a jigsaw and the final picture is you, finishing that same puzzle. A mad, green-eyed killer standing behind you. An urban legend come true.

1f u c4n r34d th1s u r34lly n33d 70 g37 l41d.

My mother said that all were angels
But I swear I saw the evil
Evil that bleeds from the sky, from the sky.

“Ordinary… the kind of dangerous, beautiful ordinary that you just can’t leave alone.Like an angel from the underworld or maybe a devil from paradise.”

"I'm not smart. I'm not pretty. I'm not even talented. I'm not anything special. I just happen to be able to trick people into believing I am."

It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them...At least he who reaches will get a good stretch, a good veiw, and perhaps even a low-hanging apple for his efforts.

I’m just like a devil
You just like a witch
You only like me cause I can scratch your itch
I’m too much a bastard
Your too much like a bitch

physician, heal thyself.

"I exist!," cried the man and the universe replied, "who are you?"

She was so tough she rolled her own tampons

"Just because it says 'she', doesn't mean it's about a girl."

If wishes were fishes, baby, we'd live by the sea.All alone, just you and me.

"I waited, waited for the Lord; who bent down and heard my cry, drew me out of the pit of destruction,...set my feet upon rock, steadied my steps, and put a new song in my mouth, a hymn to our God. Many shall look on in awe and trust in the Lord."

"Who is your God that saves all and saves none?!"

They laugh at you because you're different, you laugh at them cause they're all the same. I laugh at you because you wont stop using that fucking quote!!!

"Between the idea and the reality
Between the motion and the act
Between the conception and the creation
Between the desire and the spasm
Between the everything falls the shadow
This is the way the world ends"

Why live in the world when you can live in your head.

"All the fruits you had set your hearts on have failed you;
gone forever, never to return, is your life of magnificence & ease."

"Take a shot from every angle, I'd have shot you down, I'd have made you look fucking beautiful"

No artist is normal; if he were, he wouldn't be an artist. Normal men don't create works of art. They eat, sleep, hold down routine jobs and die. You are hypersensitive to life and nature;that's why you are able to interpret the rest of us.

Does this elevator go straight to hell or do I switch in the lobby?

I'm a monster with no tokyo.

.sdrawkcab dootsrednu tub drawrof devil si efiL

There are no stupid questions.
Just a bunch of inquisitive idiots.

I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on. -Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)

As for me my love, I am watercolor... I wash off

Time is a great healer..... Unless it's a rash, then you're better off with ointment.

It's ugly. But it works.

Comfort the disturbed, disturb the comfortable.

"Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand." Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677)

"curiosity was framed....ignorance killed the cat"

No doubt I savored the taste of independence. But it wasn't so much changing the world as becoming a part of it that drove my ambitions.

The lesson here is that dreams inevitably lead to hideous implosions

Innocence of the art is excusable; the ignorance of it is not.

"I have a huge, active imagination, [and] I think I'm really scared of being alone; because ifI'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman."-- Claire Danes

If you can't laugh at you, at least I can.

"I think we should be careful what we do in the future. Because I'm pretty sure elephants never forget" -- Erica Hamby

Make it idiot-proof and they'll build a better idiot.

"I've got a good mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it."

“I know what I know and I talk what I talk! And if that’s wrong then that’s just too bad. The airplane rides are three dollars, cash!”

Ernest Hemingway once wrote, "The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." I agree with the second part.

:Mouthful of Beer and a Mind full of Hate:

"All that we call human history: money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery - is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy."

An Optimist is someone whom laughs to forget,
a Pessimist is someone whom forgets to laugh!