June 2011
1 post
“Only after the last tree has been cut down.
Only after the last river has been...”
– Cree Indian
May 2011
4 posts
“The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.”
– Nietzsche
Scala & Kolacny Brothers - Yellow (Coldplay...
April 2011
18 posts
“Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you...”
– Hemingway
“Only the ideas that we really live have any value.”
– Hesse
“Home is where one starts from.”
– T.S. Eliot
“Oh, Jake,” Brett said, “we could have had such a damned good time together.” Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly pressing Brett against me. “Yes,” I said. “Isn’t it pretty to think so?”
-The Sun Also Rises
“Writing is my dharma.”
– Rao
“I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we...”
Come back and haunt me.
“I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal, not...”
– Faulkner
“My soul, do not seek eternal life, but exhaust the realm of the possible.”
– Pindar
“I think one should write, as nearly as possible, as if he were the first person...”
– Cassady
February 2011
2 posts
“That best portion of a man’s life are his little, nameless, unremembered...”
– Wordsworth
January 2010
13 posts
I am free from the greed of my culture I am free from the lust for the luster of the diamond houses in the city’s cluster From my own ego, from my own blunder Yes, I own the stars, I own the thunder But I have to share Yes, I own the stars, I own the thunder But I have to share it all I am free I am already free I am already free
“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.”
– Measure for Measure, Shakespeare
forward motion
Classes
-Romanticism to Modernism
-Forms of Fiction Writing
-Shakespeare: Later Plays
-Intermediate Spanish
“You’re only as young as the last time you changed your mind.”
– Timothy Leary
A bird, caught in the wires
Bleating for help I can’t provide,
I’m not that big
I hope for the best but nothing changes,
I’m sorry But I was blessed with bad eyes
There’s a lot that I miss but I don’t mind,
I’m not that old
I’ll find out what broke me soon enough
December 2009
13 posts
“Pissing through 6 inches of clothes with a 3 inch penis.”
– Everest summiteer; when prompted to tell the hardest part
and I do need the wind across my pale face
“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.”
– Sir Edmund Hillary
“Death is but the victory of time.”
– Bazin
Dear Lyndsey:
Only my mother.
“The awful thing about life is this: Everybody has their reasons.”
– La Règle du jeu