November 2010
46 posts
It’s lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with...
– Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Dreams are symbolic in order that they cannot be understood; in order that the...
– Carl Jung, Psychology of the Unconscious
Each day I wondered what would happen next. What would happen when you would...
– Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You
In my whole life, no one has ever looked at me the way that you do. No one has...
– Shelby Merrick, Higher Ground
[His] library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen...
– Ray Bradbury, Farewell Summer
In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my...
– Plato
Stories you read when you’re the right age never quite leave you. You may forget...
– Neil Gaiman, M is for Magic
We all like to think of ourselves as a standard, and I can see that it is...
– Raymond Williams, Culture and Society
Naked bodies are beautiful, sex is fun, but you’d never know this from the crap...
– Thoughts on American Porn « The London Exhibitionist’s Weblog
That was rough. Thing to do now is try and forget it… I guess I...
– Fred Gipson, Old Yeller
If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship,...
– George Bernard Shaw, You Never Can Tell
Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel?...
– Stephen King, Desperation
It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes,...
– Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
When they reached the end of the room he stopped, and muttered some words she...
– Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
Most people have a rope that ties them to someone, and that rope can be short or...
– Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down
Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And...
– Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin