By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.’ –Kafka

‘There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.’ –Edward Abbey

To sing is to begin a sentence
like “I want to get well.
I am not born for nothing
and neither are you:
Heaven never wept
over nothing."


~ Thomas Merton
from an untitled poem

“Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.”

Edgar Allan Poe

I spotted a can in the corner whose red label read SADNESS. Was there so much of it they could can it and sell it? A bolt of pain went through my intestines before I realized that it was not SADNESS but SARDINES.

— Aleksandar Hemon

Plato’s Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

Draw a crazy picture, Write a nutty poem, Sing a mumble-gumble song, Whistle through your comb. Do a loony-goony dance' Cross the kitchen floor, Put something silly in the world, That ain't been there before.
— Shel Silverstein

“All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.” Federico Fellini

"Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth."
– Frank Zappa

"Loneliness is not lack of company, loneliness is lack of purpose."
– Guillermo Maldonado (via endormirse)

I have always been fascinated with the idea of hidden passageways and hidden stairways, and I believe I'm probably searching for one out of this plane of existence into the next. Alcohol is probably one, and so is religion.

"I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them."
– Anaïs Nin

"Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness."
– Richard Carlson

"Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky."
– Barbara Kingsolver

"A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."
– Franz Kafka

"And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can’t ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it’s already happened."
– Douglas Coupland

"for we live with those retrievals from childhood that coalesce and echo throughout our lives, the way shattered pieces of glass in a kaleidoscope reappear in new forms and are songlike in their refrains and rhymes, making up a single monologue. We live permanently in the recurrence of our own stories, whatever story we tell."
– Michael Ondaatje, Divisadero
"The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back."
– Raymond Chandler (The Long Goodbye)

"I believe holy is what you do when there is nothing between your actions and the truth."
– Stacyann Chin


"Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing"
– William S. Burroughs

"A donkey with a load of holy books is still a donkey."
– Sufi proverb

‘The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.’ –Samuel Beckett