Quote for Today: Haruki Murakami
When I got to the waterfront, I parked the car beside a deserted warehouse, smoked a cigarette and put Bob Dylan on auto-repeat. I reclined the seat, kicked both …
Quote for Today: A.S. Byatt
This is where I have always been coming to. Since my time began. And when I go away from here, this will be the mid-point, to which everything ran, before, …
Quote for Today: Kahlil Gibran
Imagination sees the complete reality–it is where past, present and future meet … Imagination is limited neither to the reality which is apparent–nor to one place. It lives everywhere. It …
Quote for Today: Markus Zusak
We are wolves, which are wild dogs, and this is our place in the city. We are small and our house is small on our small urban street. We …
Quote for Today: Roger Ebert
I may appear to suffer from some sort of compulsive repetition syndrome, but these rituals are important to me. I have many places where I sit and think, “I have …
Quote for Today: Brandon Sanderson
“What is a woman’s place in this modern world?” Jasnah Kholin’s words read. “I rebel against this question, though so many of my peers ask it. The inherent bias in …
Quote for Today: Summer Brennan
Our shoes pin us to the world, like Peter Pan to his shadow. More than simply facilitating our movement out-of-doors, they mediate between the wearer and the ground. Perhaps …
Quote for Today: Matt Haig
Humans, as a rule, don’t like mad people unless they are good at painting, and only then once they are dead. But the definition of mad, on Earth, seems to …
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: Lorrie Moore
One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them. ―Lorrie Moore, Like Life Public Domain Image via Pixabay