Paul

“Bubby: All my friends are dying! The bastards! Don't they know I want to play mah-jongg?!”
― Seth Rogen, Yearbook

“Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that's where I imagine it - there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in awhile, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you'll live forever in your own private library.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“I picked one thing out by itself and found it attached to everything and the Universe. I recommend you try it. Don’t settle for what the natural-ist, or historian, or teacher offers. Go beyond what everyone knows. Pull threads, follow leads. Be a little obsessive and look for connections others may have missed. You don’t have to write a book—just revel in the universal connectedness of it all.”
― Jono Miller, The Palmetto Book: Histories and Mysteries of the Cabbage Palm

“So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being.”
― Jack Kerouac