Fast Lane

This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.

– Rudyard Kipling

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Outside Looking In

Sometimes monsters are invisible, and
sometimes demons attack you from the inside.
Just because you cannot see the claws and the teeth
does not mean they aren’t ripping through me.
Pain does not need to be seen to be felt.

– Emm Roy

S Y M B I O S I S

I speculate that we shall come to accept the more radical idea that each one of our genes is a symbiotic unit. We are gigantic colonies of symbiotic genes.

– Richard Dawkins

The Other Half Of Your Shadow

In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive.

– Haruki Murakami

Zoning Out Like The Masses

A void in my chest was beginning to fill with anger. Quiet, defeated anger that guaranteed me the right to my hurt, that believed no one could possibly understand that hurt.

– Rachel Sontag

Gimme Something Light

I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of socks. Got a fur sink. An electric dog polisher. A gasoline powered turtleneck sweater. And, of course, I bought some dumb stuff, too.

-Steve Martin

The Odd And Imperfect

Fashion is like Eating, you shouldn’t stick with the same menu.

– Kenzo Takada

Fear and Anxiety

It’s often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, “Stay there. Don’t move.

– Jeffrey Eugenides

A Totally Different Drug

“Wise is the one who flavors the future with some salt from the past. Becoming dust is no threat to the phoenix born from the ash.”
– Curtis Jones

Learning Curve

“There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.”
― Indira Gandhi