'I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.'

- Soren Kierkegaard

If I could have it back
All the time that we wasted
I'd only waste it again
If I could have it back
You know I'd love to waste it again
Waste it again and again and again

- Arcade Fire, The Suburbs (continued)

If the businessmen drink my blood
like the kids in art school said they would
then I guess I'll just begin again.
You say, can we still be friends?

If I was scared, I would
and if I was bored, you know I would
and if I was yours - but I'm not. ( More lyrics... )

Oh she was a rare thing, fine as a bee's wing
So fine a breath of wind might blow her away
She was a lost child, oh she was running wild
She said "As long as there's no price on love, I'll stay.
And you wouldn't want me any other way"

'Too much of anything
is never enough
Too much of everything
is never enough'

- Pet Shop Boys

'And I urge you to notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'

- Kurt Vonnegut

I would like to speak in front
Of myself with all my ears alive
And find out what it is I want.

- WS Graham

'The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.'

- Carl Jung

It is not your memories which haunt you.
It is not what you have written down.
It is what you have forgotten, what you must forget.
What you must go on forgetting all your life.

- James Fenton, 'A German Requiem'

'This afternoon she discovered my birth date had just passed. She is filing old documents, the birth certificate applications and so forth, now that the flurry of typing is done. She seemed hurt. "A man turns thirty years, that's important," she scolded, "and to think I sat here and knew nought of it, all the day long ( Read more... )