“I would rather be ashes than dust!
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor,
every atom of me in magnificent glow,
than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time.”
-Jack London
Memoir:
Like new friends pretending to be old friends, we talked. It was awkward and stilted, but we did the best we could. The beer helped, it eased us into a relationship that had been stunted for too long.
This is what it felt like to have a brother.
(Christmas 2010)
if you haven’t neti potted it, you need to as soon as possible.
The blues are because you’re getting fat and maybe it’s been raining too long, you’re just sad that’s all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you’re afraid and you don’t know what you’re afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling?
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
C. S. Lewis
"Steal from the best. If you can’t think of a character for a story, think of Cary Grant and think of what Cary Grant would do. I mean, nobody’s going to know it."
Kurt Vonnegut, quoted in the excellent And So It Goes (via austinkleon)
Ringo and Maureen.
(Source: inkkfiends, via kandilorene)
I just realized I like everything my dad posts on Facebook. UGH.
