Nikki Giovanni // "I hope I die warmed by the life that I tried to live."
Ernest Hemingway // "Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. It’s been that way all this year. It’s been that way so many times."
Charles Bukowski // "We are far too serious, we must learn to juggle our heavens and our hells…the game is playing us, we must play back."
Tennessee Williams // "It is the pursuit of beauty in things and people that is the journey…the real journey. I was happiest when I sought beauty in words and music and images. I was happiest in movies or in the middle of a symphony…whatever allowed the mind to ponder all that was possible and glorious. The world, I suppose, is the result of actions taken by people possessed of an image or an idea…and the world I care most about is constructed from those images that reminded someone of the beauty and the nobility of people… I’m back on the job of looking for this beauty, and nothing is safe from my eyes and my ears. I want to find and host the beauty of the world."
Wendell Berry // "I dream of a quiet man who explains nothing and defends nothing, but only knows where the rarest wildflowers are blooming, and who goes, and finds that he is smiling not by his own will."
Paul Newman // "I’d like to be remembered as a guy who tried...tried to be part of his times, tried to help people communicate with one another, tried to find some decency in his own life, tried to extend himself as a human being. Someone who isn’t complacent, who doesn’t cop out."
Bob Marley // "My home is in my head."
Tove Jansson // "It is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent—lose your invaluable curiosity and you let yourself die. It’s as simple as that."
Tennessee Williams // "There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go."
Hermann Hesse // "This day will never come again and anyone who fails to eat and drink and taste and smell it will never have it offered to him again in all eternity. The sun will never shine as it does today...You must play your part and sing a song, one of your best."
Clarice Lispector // "It’s inside myself that I must create someone who will understand."
John Muir // "The body seems to feel beauty when exposed to it as it feels the campfire or sunshine, entering not by the eyes alone, but equally through all one’s flesh like radiant heat."