“One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.”
- Henry Miller

So that memoir I was stalling on? Wrote it. There are three Truths and three Fears my writing revealed to me ( Read more... )

“Modern Japanese literary history has been dominated by the notion that a deepened interiority and its expression are the criteria of literary merit. Literature, however, isn’t even slightly possessed of such a necessity.”
- Karatoni Kojin, On the Power to Construct

"Make your choice, adventurous Stranger;
Strike the bell and bide the danger,
Or wonder, till it drives you mad,
What would have followed if you had."
- C. S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew

"The world will not be saved by old minds with new programs. If the world is saved, it will be by new minds -- with no programs."
- Daniel Quinn, The Story of B

Hi. I'm stalling. I'm staling on a memoir I have to write for Creative Nonfiction Writing class. I could write something simple, but no, since I started the class I knew what the memoir would be, what it had to be, what it's time to write.

Yet, after two hours, I have written zero words but read 123 Square Root of Minus Garfield comics. Yay.

I ( Read more... )

Man, lose track a couple of times...

"I wish I'd destroyed it along with all the other toys I was given and which I've since forgotten all about, because that passion for destruction is part of how a child discovers the world."
- Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the ( Read more... )

"You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance."
- Edward Flaherty

"Perhaps we're all strangers to one another in a way, and the only thing that makes someone a 'total' stranger is that they haven't yet had the opportunity to betray you."
- Peter David, Tong Lashing

Damn. No beautiful woman or magical sword.