Famous Quotes Ipsum

. . . I could lay here and read all night. i am not able to fall asleep without reading. you have that time when your brain has nothing constructive to do so it rambles. i fool my brain out of that by making it read until it shuts off. i just think it's best to do something right up until you fall asleep. the only thing worth saying is what you really feel. never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. why? wherefore? inasmuch as which?.

All art is quite useless. change only takes place through action. our collective will to resist what is unjust is like a fire that cannot be put out. action is eloquence. think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. once you are real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand. the way i see it, the men that i'm with, whoever they are, it's like look, you have to accept that i like ice cream, and i know it shows up on my hips but if you can't accept that, then leave. go away. toodles. it is non-negotiable. to read a writer, for me, is not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company. there is a certain kind of kid who is so in love with words that she kisses the pictures of authors on the jackets of books. i was one. all i ever wanted was to be a writer. though this yearning now seems like aspiring to be a blacksmith in the age of the automobile, my childhood image of what a writer did bestowed superhuman powers on the profession. a writer sat privately at her desk and made public things happen. the power was godlike. the sense of accomplishment had to be the same. making words slant across the page was like making rain. flowers grew in ink. hurricanes and revolutions were stirred up by the sound of pen scratching paper. a single sun shines here and in the land where i was born, though we call it by different names. in the realm of idea, the great principles behind the forms that we see are the same. i lay down on the parched ground and looked as hard as i could at the blue sky. i wanted to feel the sheerness of space, to somehow reach what was empty and quiet, to hold what was right beyond my grasp. run for office? no. i've slept with too many women, i've done too many drugs, and i've been to too many parties. how many joys are crushed under foot because people look up at the sky and disregard what is at their feet? no pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to uncharted land or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. i took us for better and i took us for worse / don't you ever forget it / now the steel bars between me and a promise / suddenly bend with ease / the closer i'm bound in love to you / the closer i am to free art thou pale for weariness / of climbing heaven and gazing on earth / wandering companionless....

Once you are real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand. the way i see it, the men that i'm with, whoever they are, it's like look, you have to accept that i like ice cream, and i know it shows up on my hips but if you can't accept that, then leave. go away. toodles. it is non-negotiable. words do not express thoughts very well. they always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. tomboy. alright, call me a tomboy. tomboys get medals. tomboys win championships. tomboys can fly. oh, and tomboys aren't boys. sure, the world is full of trouble. but as long as we have people undoing trouble, we have a pretty good world. the happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. the earth laughs in flowers. if we build a society based on honoring the earth, we build a society which is sustainable, and has the capacity to support all life forms..