Quote for Today: Khalil Gibran
We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. Even while the earth sleeps …
Quote for Today: Gustave Flaubert
Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me …
Quote for Today: Rebecca Solnit
Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in …
Quote for Today: John Steinbeck
A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn’t telling, or teaching, or ordering. Rather, he seeks to establish a relationship with …
Quote for Today: Miranda July
I didn’t have any vices before the Internet. There are a lot of cracks in the day, moments where you don’t know what to do next, so you have a …
Rooted in Loneliness: Thoughts on Ray Bradbury’s The Fog Horn
Art, like life, relies on communication. What happens when empathy fails and we are struck by how unintelligible we are? Sometimes it seems that the only thing we can share …
Quote for Today: Sherman Alexie
Corliss wondered what happens to a book that sits unread on a library shelf for thirty years. Can a book rightfully be called a book if it never gets read?… …
Quote for Today: Shel Silverstein
Masks She had blue skin, And so did he. He kept it hid And so did she. They searched for blue Their whole life through, Then passed right by- And …
Quote for Today: Joseph Conrad
It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream– making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, …
Quote for Today: Adrienne Rich
No person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone. There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and …