"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