It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it
than to be sane and have one's doubts.

Shakespeare

SONNET 97

How like a winter hath my absence been
From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!
What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen!
What old December's bareness every where!
And yet this time removed was summer's time,
The teeming autumn, big with rich increase,
Bearing the wanton burden of the prime,
Like widow'd wombs after their lords' decease:
Yet this abundant issue seem'd to me
But hope of orphans and unfather'd fruit;
For summer and his pleasures wait on thee,
And, thou away, the very birds are mute;
Or, if they sing, 'tis with so dull a cheer
That leaves look pale, dreading the winter's near.

“And if there's any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there's any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara.” Phil Ochs

Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say his father was German. Nobody believed he was real. Nobody ever saw him or knew anybody that ever worked directly for him, but to hear Kobayashi tell it, anybody could have worked for Soze. You never knew. That was his power. The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. And like that, poof. He's gone.

Because It's My Blog, and She's One of the Best!

William Faulkner - “Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid. Ain't nothing in the woods going to hurt you unless you corner it, or it smells that you are afraid. A bear or a deer, too, has got to be scared of a coward the same as a brave man has got to be.

Nina Simone sings Bob Dylan

All unnecessary weight is eliminated. . . . Even the brain cells needed for song are lost and replaced seasonally in some birds.
—All the Birds of North America, p. 63

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
- Matt Groening

I live by the truth that "No" is a complete sentence.

If when you die you get a choice between
going to regular heaven or pie heaven,
choose pie heaven.
It might be a trick but if not. mmmmmmm, boy.

~Jack Handey

Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I’m one of them.”
— ~ Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

Donnie Darko
Donnie: Why do you wear that stupid bunny suit?
Frank: Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?

"In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight. Not people die but worlds die in them."

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

"I think… if it is true that
there are as many minds as there
are heads, then there are as many
kinds of love as there are hearts."

— from ‘Anna Karenina’ by Leo Tolstoy

"I had a boyfriend who told me I'd never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy, never have a hit song, and that he hoped I'd fail. I said to him, 'Someday when we're not together, you won't be able to order a cup of coffee at the fucking deli without hearing or seeing me'." - Lady Gaga, speaking to Cosmopolitan

The Sweet Love of Tim Minchin

Blossom Dearie

A critic once said Blossom's voice range wouldn't reach to the second floor of a dollhouse, but Oh, what she could do with a song lyric.

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

~G. K. Chesterton~