Quote for Today: John Steinbeck
“This here ol’ man jus’ lived a life an’ just died out of it. I don’ know whether he was good or bad, but that don’t matter much. He was …
Quote for Today: Isaac Leib Peretz
I am a rainworm, buried deep Among the oozing, slimy things, Yet of an eagle’s nest I dream, And eagle’s wings. —Isaac Leib Peretz, “I am a rainworm”, translated by J. Robbins …
Quote for Today: Vera Nazarian
The desert and the ocean are realms of desolation on the surface. The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust. The …
Quote for Today: E.F. Benson
“Ah, this delicious night air,” she said, luxuriously sniffing in the coolness. “Night air and gardening are the great tonics. There is nothing so stimulating as bare contact with rich …
Half Buried in the Sand: Remembering Kolmanskop
Humans react profoundly to images of places, natural or man-made. Why are we moved by locations we have never visited? From the mystical glow of the Aurora Borealis to the …
Quote for Today: Ray Bradbury
We’re going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. And when they ask us what we’re doing, you …
Quote for Today: Jonathan Safran Foer
There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me. ―Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly …
Quote for Today: Italo Calvino
Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. The …
Quote for Today: Nathaniel Hawthorne
In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to forget their existence, and the buried ones, …