"What if the point of life has nothing to do with the creation of an ever-expanding region of control? What if the point is not to keep at bay all those people, beings, objects and emotions that we so needlessly fear? What if the point instead is to let go of that control? What if the point of life, the primary reason for existence, is to lie naked ( Read more... )

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Found via jinxed_wood, Neil Gaiman commenting on David Tennant's Hamlet:

I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who in Hamlet jokes, so this is just me getting it out of the way early, to avoid the rush...

'To be, or not to be, that is the question. Weeelll.... More of A question really. Not THE ( Read more... )

"On a street I saw a naked child, hungry and shivering in the cold. I became angry and said to God, why do you allow this? Why don't you do something? God did not reply.

That night he said, quite suddenly, I certainly did something. I made you.

I love you
Serafina

"Once, when I was in college, I wrote a paper for a philosophy class. I don't remember exactly what the assignment was--something to do with epistemology. Here's what I said in the paper, roughly: Guess what? The Nazis didn't lose the war after all. They won it and flourished. They took over the world and wiped out every last Jew, every ( Read more... )

This is from Richard Russo's afterword in Jennifer Finney Boylan's 'She's not There'.

"According to Flannery O'Connor, the fiction writer's material falls into two categories: mystery and manners. The latter are, for the most part, observable human behaviours, often socially constructed... while the former, which reside at our human center, ( Read more... )

"When you eliminate the improbable, what's left, no matter how impossible, is much more fun."