Paul

“He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself:
A day of dappled seaborne clouds.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.”
― Tom Waits

“When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder.
Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much. A calendar that showed the wrong month. I could have cried over it. I did. Where the smoke from a chimney ended. How an overturned bottle rested at the edge of a table.
I spent my life learning to feel less.
Every day I felt less.
Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

“Everyone in the life before was cranky, I think, because they just wanted to know.

--After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned”
― Dave Eggers