At this moment the King, who had been for some time busily writing in his note-book, called out “Silence!” and read out from his book, “Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.” Everybody looked at Alice. “I’m not a mile high,” said Alice....
“This game is so much fun, we do not care who wins.” —Stephen Huneck, from Sally Goes to the Farm am I traumatizing my children are other people happier than me do I generate too much garbage why am I so selfish why is everyone else so selfish if I took...
“I have shot several films in New York City and, while scouting for locations I have often seen tape marks that other productions have left behind—proof that most New York movies follow well-worn pathways.” —John Lindley, cinematographer The other day...
“Our task is to stamp this provisional, perishing earth into ourselves so deeply, so painfully and passionately, that its being may rise again, ‘invisibly,’ in us. We are the bees of the invisible.” —Rainer Maria Rilke, in a letter explaining...
“I never wanted to be well-rounded, and I do not admire well-rounded people nor their work. So far as I can see, nothing good in the world has ever been done by well-rounded people. The good work is done by people with jagged, broken edges, because those edges cut...
