Quote for Today: Ian Fleming
– In the centre of Bond was a hurricane-room, the kind of citadel found in old-fashioned houses in the tropics. These rooms are small, strongly built cells in the heart …
40 days of Poetry: Day 30: Try to Praise the Mutilated World by Adam Zagajewski
Day 30: My dear friend Maureen McCarthy suggested this beautiful poem, Try to Praise the Mutilated World by Adam Zagajewski. It’s about remembering the good things, which are often small …
Quote for Today: W. Somerset Maugham
I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men (sic) …
Quote for Today: Chuck Palahniuk
It’s creepy, but here we are, the Pilgrims, the crackpots of our time, trying to establish our own alternate reality. To build a world out of rocks and chaos. …
Quote for Today: Mark X.
That black, maddening firmament; that vast cosmic ocean, endlessly deep in every direction, both Heaven and Pandemonium at once; mystical Zodiac, speckled flesh of Tiamat; all that is chaos, infinite …
Quote for Today: Mickey Hart
In the beginning, there was noise. Noise begat rhythm, and rhythm begat everything else. –Mickey Hart, Rhythms of the Universe Public Domain Image: Abell 1744 galaxy cluster, NASA, ESA, and …
Quote for Today: Zhuangzi
A beam or pillar can be used to batter down a city wall, but it is no good for stopping up a little hole – this refers to a …
Quote for Today: Nassim Nicholas Tale
When you ask people, ‘What’s the opposite of fragile?,’ they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That’s not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from …
Quote for Today: Wendell Berry
And I knew that the Spirit that had gone forth to shape the world and make it live was still alive in it. I just had no doubt. I could …
Quote for Today: Fernando Pessoa
My soul is a black maelstrom, a great madness spinning about a vacuum, the swirling of a vast ocean around a hole in the void, and in the waters, more …