James Smith

“I hate how, when you tell people that your friend threatened to hit you, the first thing that they say is "Well, did they really hit you?" as if threatening to hit someone isn't damaging in itself.”
― Jami Page

“I can examine how, but not why, I wrote what I did, or why I had so perversely deviated from my original path. Can one, tracking and successfully collaring a criminal, truly comprehend the criminal mind? Can we truly separate the how and the why?”
― Patti Smith, Devotion

“Faith, in its forming of images of the ultimate environment, never finds analogues that fully or with complete accuracy bring out and express its knowing.”
― James W. Fowler, Stages of Faith: The Psychology of Human Development and the Quest for Meaning

“She grew up in the days when lamps ran on whale blubber, guitars were strung with catgut, and pig brains were a delicacy. Imposing my pampered millennial morality on the situation would be an insult to her entire generation.”
― George Watsky