We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.
Charles Bukowski
Quotes
All you need is sentence, a word, a thought, and suddenly you remember who you actually were.
My favorite authors are the ones living, dead, read and unread, published and unpublished, who write because they can’t stop and because something inside them burns to be outside. That doesn’t necessarily mean that I want to read their books, but they are all and every one my favorites.
But paper and ink have conjuring abilities of their own. Arrangements of lines and shapes, of letters and words, on a series of pages make a world we can dwell and travel in.
Lynda Barry in What It Is
If we do not seize this unique moment in our constitutional history to reform our surveillance laws and practices, we will all live to regret it.
Intentions are ice. Results are diamonds. Both can be hard and cold or sparkle and shine, but intentions only matter as long as the heat doesn’t melt them away to nothing. Results can’t be gotten rid of half so easily. You can split them or polish them, even burn them in a hot fire, but you have to work if you want to change them.
Aral Kingslayer, Crossed Blades by Kelly McCullough
A writer never has a vacation. For a writer life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.
Eugene Ionesco (via austinkleon)
This is the truth.
They’re not spying on us to prevent crimes, they’re spying on us to retroactively convict us of crimes once we’ve pissed them off.
I mused this a few days ago, before I saw the (must watch) Guardian video of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, where he specifically confirms it, at 7:10.
(via claytoncubitt)
Yep. This.
If I can loose myself in one single thought I know that there is still hope in my life for peace to exist, even among so much work, and color, and life.
If your plan requires getting picked and you’re not getting picked, you need a new plan. I’m betting it will turn out far better in the end, but yes, indeed, I understand that it’s harder than being anointed. Your talent deserves the shift in strategy that will let you do your best work.