“It’s understandable for people to want all their favorite things to happen, but the crazy thing is to think that they can avoid all the hard things. To want everything you ever dreamed of, to the exclusion of anything hard, that feels common to me now in a way that is hurting people. They’re ignoring how much good there is in being present for the hardest parts of your life.”
-Louis CK as quoted in “Louis CK: The Rolling Stone Interview” by Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone (April 25, 2013)
Many thanks to Amy for giving me this article and insisting … Read the rest
“You might be afraid of the dark, but the dark is not afraid of you.”
-The Dark by Lemony Snicket, illustrated by Jon Klassen… Read the rest
“I didn’t know how literal the desert was, in terms of lack of lake.”
-Cheryl Strayed on the Mojave Desert, The Art of Fact award presentation, May 1, 2013… Read the rest
“Writing is hard for every last one of us–straight white men included. Coal mining is harder. Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it is to mine for coal? They do not. They simply dig.”
-Tiny Beautiful Things
“The best thing you can possibly do with your life is to tackle the motherfucking shit out of love.”
-Tiny Beautiful Things
“And every last one of us can do better than give up.”
-Tiny Beautiful Things
“I was a terrible believer in things, but I was also a terrible nonbeliever in things. … Read the rest
December 22, 2012 – 3:57 pm
This thing all things devours:
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats high mountain down.
-Gollum’s riddle in The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Last night, I celebrated the end of the world by getting together with friends for dinner. They came here, and they brought dinner because while I am more settled by the day and finally cooking again, I’m mostly baking and actual meals are as spotty as my posts have been here the last couple weeks. I was at least together enough to have wine on … Read the rest
October 24, 2012 – 6:23 am
If you stare at the center of the universe, there is a coldness there. A blankness. Ultimately, the universe doesn’t care about us. Time doesn’t care about us.
That’s why we have to care about each other.
-A in Every Day by David Levithan
A continuation of last Wednesday’s thought. The universe may not care about me, but it continues to give me worthwhile things to think about. Thanks, universe!… Read the rest
October 17, 2012 – 5:58 am
“For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.”
-1 Corinthians 13:12-13 (Authorized King James)
I looked this up in multiple versions, and, per usual, the King James is my favorite. Today, I will think on charity in its original sense and all I don’t know, which, it turns out, is a lot.… Read the rest
October 7, 2012 – 6:11 pm
“It’s also about what you ask for and what you do and how after, later on, when you finally get it, if you don’t want it, it’s not like Amazon. You can’t return it. You actually have to deal with it.”
-Ben Folds at Kleinhans Music Hall in Buffalo, NY (October 5, 2012)
“I guess God was right. I can handle this. I can totally take so much more.”
-Tig Notaro, “Live”
I had to stop reading Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. It’s suspenseful, which is what kept me with it through the first half, but then I … Read the rest
October 2, 2012 – 8:15 pm
Gilbert Gottfried: How many times are you up there, and all of a sudden it goes into your head and you go, Wait a minute. What the fuck am I doing now? I’m standing here, I’m talking to a group of people, and I’m thinking I’m somehow funny or wittier than they are. What am I doing right now?
Marc Maron: Well, I think the reason we get on stage is to avoid that moment at all costs.
-WTF with Marc Maron, episode 320… Read the rest
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