"Once, a duck she was cooking caught fire, and she threw it in the pool."
Michael Stipe on Gwenyth Paltrow, from The New Yorker’s Best of the Talk of the Town 2011.
"Would you pay $50 to see Condoleezza Rice play the piano while Gloria Steinem tap dances?"
Julie Klausner, How Was Your Week
And yes, of course.
"If only we’d stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time."
Edith Wharton
(via turtalia)
"Every machine is the spiritualization of an organism."
Helvetica is on Netflix and I’m reading Packing For Mars, in case you were wondering.
"Dance like only a few people are watching and they have paid good money to see it. And also, you really need the money."
Today begins the first day of my re-entrance into the brave world of the unemployed. Rent is due on Friday. Better get to dancing.
"Let the grass die. I let almost all of my indoor plants die from neglect while I was writing the book. There are all kinds of ways to live. You can take your choice. You can keep a tidy house, and when St. Peter asks you what you did with your life, you can say, ‘I kept a tidy house, I made my own cheese balls.’"
Annie Dillard
"If we go into everything seeing good, seeing possibility in those airport bistros, Boingo Wi-Fi, saying ‘yes and,’ what might be possible? It’s the ‘wanting to like it principle.’"
- Bobulate
The people I know who live like this are my favorite kind of people.
"Think of an experience from your childhood. Something you remember clearly, something you can see, feel, maybe even smell, as if you were really there. After all you really were there at the time, weren’t you? How else could you remember it? But here is the bombshell: you weren’t there. Not a single atom that is in your body today was there when that event took place ….Matter flows from place to place and momentarily comes together to be you. Whatever you are, therefore, you are not the stuff of which you are made. If that does not make the hair stand up on the back of your neck, read it again until it does, because it is important."
Richard Dawkins matters. That is a pun about science that I just made up.
