"There is no water, only pre-tea."

"However much I am at the mercy of the world I never let myself get lost by brooding over its misery. I hold firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of that misery to an end." - Albert Schweitzer

 Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.

-O. Henry's last words-

"It feels important to remind ourselves, at this point, that Facebook, our new beloved interface with reality, was designed by a Harvard sophomore with a Harvard sophomore’s preoccupations. What is your relationship status? (Choose one. There can be only one answer. People need to know.) Do you have a “life”? (Prove it. Post pictures.) Do you ( Read more... )

“Always be who you are, and say what you feel,
because people who mind don’t matter,
and people who matter don’t mind.” Dr. Suess

Poetry, indeed, cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets ( Read more... )

Those who are at war with others, are not at peace with themselves -W.H

In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for
every one we lose.
-Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine,
mystic (1782-1857)

Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in
small, though injurious in large, quantities. No man who is not
pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.
-Frederick Saunders,
librarian and essayist
(1807-1902)

We are here and now. Further than that, all knowledge is moonshine. ~H.L. Mencken

"I believe in the geographic cure. ... I travel not to get away from my troubles but to see how they look in front of famous buildings or on deserted beaches. I take them for walks. Sometimes I get them drunk. Back at home we generally understand each other better."

- Elizabeth McCracken, author, 1966-