The importance of being idle.

“Some part of me knew he would show up, that if I stood in one place long enough he would find me, like you’re taught to do when you’re lost. But they never taught us what to do if both of you are lost, and you both end up in the same place, waiting.” - Nick Flynn, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

“Some part of me knew he would show up, that if I stood in one place long enough he would find me, like you’re taught to do when you’re lost. But they never taught us what to do if both of you are lost, and you both end up in the same place, waiting.”

- Nick Flynn, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

“I offer Emily half of my hit of acid- Love Saves the Day. It’s my second or third time tripping, Emily’s first, and she’s understandably trepid. Awake all night, at one point I find her touching her reflection in a cruelly lit dorm bathroom, asking if she’ll ever be the same. I kiss her then for the first time and whisper, No.” - Nick Flynn, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

“I offer Emily half of my hit of acid- Love Saves the Day. It’s my second or third time tripping, Emily’s first, and she’s understandably trepid. Awake all night, at one point I find her touching her reflection in a cruelly lit dorm bathroom, asking if she’ll ever be the same. I kiss her then for the first time and whisper, No.”

- Nick Flynn, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

“By the time I make my way to the border of Mauritania, to the edge of the Sahara, I see no end to being lost. You can spend your entire life simply falling in that direction. It isn’t a station you reach but just the general state of going down. Once you make it back, if you make it back, you will stand before your long-lost friends but in some essential way they will no longer know you.” - Nick Flynn, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

“By the time I make my way to the border of Mauritania, to the edge of the Sahara, I see no end to being lost. You can spend your entire life simply falling in that direction. It isn’t a station you reach but just the general state of going down. Once you make it back, if you make it back, you will stand before your long-lost friends but in some essential way they will no longer know you.”

- Nick Flynn, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

“….he said it was interesting. He used the word ‘textured’. He said ‘smooth’ is boring but ‘textured’ was interesting, and the scar meant that I was stronger than whatever had tried to hurt me.” - Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

“….he said it was interesting. He used the word ‘textured’. He said ‘smooth’ is boring but ‘textured’ was interesting, and the scar meant that I was stronger than whatever had tried to hurt me.”

- Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

“What do you want out of life?” I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls. “I don’t know,” she said. “Just wait on tables and try to get along.” She yawned. I put my hand over her mouth and told her not to yawn. I tried to tell her how excited I was about life and the things we could do together; saying that, and planning to leave Denver in two days. She turned away wearily. We lay on our backs, looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when He made life so sad. - Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“What do you want out of life?” I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls.


“I don’t know,” she said. “Just wait on tables and try to get along.” She yawned. I put my hand over her mouth and told her not to yawn.

I tried to tell her how excited I was about life and the things we could do together; saying that, and planning to leave Denver in two days.

She turned away wearily.

We lay on our backs, looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when He made life so sad.


- Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“Lighting new cigarettes, pouring more drinks. It has been a beautiful fight. Still is.” - Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

“Lighting new cigarettes,
pouring more
drinks.

It has been a beautiful
fight.

Still
is.”


- Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

“Should she stick with the nice, sensitive guy who treats her well (Ben Stiller), or should she roll the dice with the frustrating boho bozo who treats her like crap (Ethan Hawk)? Winona made the kind of romantic decision most people my age would have made in 1994: She pursued a path that was difficult and depressing, and she did so because it showed the slightest potential for transcendence.” - Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

“Should she stick with the nice, sensitive guy who treats her well (Ben Stiller), or should she roll the dice with the frustrating boho bozo who treats her like crap (Ethan Hawk)? Winona made the kind of romantic decision most people my age would have made in 1994: She pursued a path that was difficult and depressing, and she did so because it showed the slightest potential for transcendence.”


- Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“I hope she’ll be a fool — that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“I hope she’ll be a fool — that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,- One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never.” - William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

“Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever,-
One foot in sea and one on shore,
To one thing constant never.”


- William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing