Stepheni

“We were created to be fully human - a lifetime effort - and using our minds intelligently and reverently is essential to full humanhood. But Rushdie talks throughout of making something sacred, whereas there is another kind of sacrality that exists of its own right.”
― Wendy Beckett

“Oh, Al, shut up! Stop criticizing me! First I'm criticized for being a prude and sounding like a social worker or something, then I'm criticized for looking like a cheap broad. How am I supposed to live? Under the water or something, coming up only to say 'I beg your pardon if I disturb you by coming up for air. I'll do my best to remain submerged.”
― Pamela Moore, Chocolates for Breakfast

“Listen, do we still have that Poème de l'extase? Put it on, if you can find it. Put it on loud. His music sounds like I think – sometimes. Has that far off cosmic itch. Divinely fouled up. All fire and air. The first time I heard it I played it over and over. Couldn’t shut it off. It was like a bath of ice, cocaine and rainbows. For weeks I went about it in a trance. Something had happened to me. Now this sounds crazy, but it’s true. Every time a thought seized me a little door would open inside my chest, and there, in his comfy little nest sat a bird, the sweetest gentlest bird imaginable. ‘Think it out!’ he would chirp. ‘Think it out to the end!’ And I would, by God. Never any effort involved. … Like an étude gliding off a glacier....”
― Henry Miller, Nexus

“The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.”
― Simone Weil