Quote for Today: Christopher Isherwood
An afternoon drive from Los Angeles will take you up into the high mountains, where eagles circle above the forests and the cold blue lakes, or out over the Mojave …
Quote for Today: Charles Finch
If there’s a single idea I emphasize when people ask about writing, it’s that there’s no right way to produce a book. But I do think that whatever you do, …
Quote for Today: J. Robert Oppenheimer
You put a hard question on the virtue of discipline. What you say is true: I do value it—and I think that you do too—more than for its earthly …
Quote for Today: Tahar Ben Jelloun
Outside, not only over our pit but above all far away from it, there was life. You could not think too much about it, but I liked to imagine …
Quote for Today: Joyce Tenneson
My whole artistic life has been devoted to battling myself and my ability to externalize my deepest emotions. As I have gotten older, the work has become more direct, perhaps …
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: Wendell Berry
The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and …
Quote for Today: Stephen Sondheim
If I cannot fly… Let me sing. —Stephen Sondheim, “Green Finch and Linnet Bird” from Sweeney Todd Image: Bird in cage/ Fisheye © Aleera with CCLicense
Quote for Today: Douglas Coupland
People listening to songs are like people reading novels: for a few minutes, for a few hours, someone else gets to come in and hijack that part of your brain …
Quote for Today: Rainer Maria Rilke
All that has never yet been spoken I believe in all that has never yet been spoken. I want to free what waits within me so that what no one …