February 2012
36 posts
Taking a four week break from the world in order to get healthy again and gain some very necessary weight. Thank goodness for being surrounded by the best friends I could ever ask for and for a family who’s support is unlimited.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
– Mark Twain
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge”.” - Isaac Asimov
To try to write love is to confront the muck of language; that region of...
– Barthes
People with self-respect exhibit a certain toughness, a kind of moral nerve;...
– Joan Didion
January 2012
32 posts
Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a...
– Kurt Vonnegut