February 2010
54 posts
January 2010
61 posts
Here’s a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.
– Tallulah Bankhead
White Noise - Don DeLillo
“We ought to have an official Day of the Dead. Like the Mexicans.”
“We do. It’s called Super Bowl Week.”
Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a...
– Edward Abbey
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
– Colette
If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.
– Lewis Carroll
Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.
– Jules Feiffer
You can’t spend what you ain’t got.
You can’t lose what you...
– Muddy Waters
There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
– Bobby Burns
Would that the Roman people had a single neck
– ~ Caligula
The trouble with the world is that it’s always one drink behind.
– ~ Humphrey Bogart
I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
– ~ Lord Byron
It’s coming from the sorrow in the street,
The holy places where the...
– Favorite Lyric Dept: Democracy - Leonard Cohen
The dog barks but the caravan moves on.
– Persian Proverb
All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.
– Federico Fellini
I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
– Edgar Allan Poe
If voting could change the system it would be illegal.
– ~ Robert Anton Wilson
Hide not your talents.
They for use were made.
What’s a sundial in the...
– Ben Franklin
I live in Billville on a street named Bill,
On the corner near Bill street and...
– Favorite Lyric Department: “Oh, Afghanistan” ~ Friesign Theater
If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation...
– ~ John Dos Passos
We caught a rattlesnake,
Now we got something for dinner.
– Favorite Lyric Department
Nothing (But Flowers) ~ Talking Heads
You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
– Jack London