“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more.”

- Lord Byron

"Fate has always tried to make me love or want things just so that it could show me, on the very next day, that I didn’t have and could never have them."

We don’t need

a list of rights and wrongs,

tables of do’s and don’ts; we need

books, time, and silence. “Thou shalt not”

is soon forgotten, but “Once upon a time” lasts forever.

- philip pullman -

I am eternally, devastatingly romantic, and I thought people would see it because “romantic” doesn’t mean “sugary”. It’s dark and tormented - the furor of passion, the despair of an idealism that you can’t attain.

-Catherine Breillat

“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters - sometimes very hastily - but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved ( Read more... )

"Just look at us. Everything is backwards; everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information and religions destroy spirituality." ~Michael Ellner