June 2012
26 posts
“I think of my body as a side effect of my mind.”
– Carrie Fisher (via sufjanism)
“Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon...”
– Macbeth, William Shakespeare (via deathisourbet)
May 2012
38 posts
“I have nothing now but praise for my life. I’m not unhappy. I cry a lot because...”
– Maurice Sendak on Fresh Air in 2011. [all interviews with Sendak here] (via nprfreshair)
“This book gives me more information about penguins than I care to have.”
– In 1944 a children’s book club sent a volume about penguins to a 10-year-old girl, enclosing a card seeking her opinion.
She wrote, “This book gives me more information about penguins than I care to have.”
American diplomat Hugh Gibson called it the finest piece of literary criticism he had ever...
“I love you more than my own skin.”
– Frida Kahlo to Diego Rivera (via thechocolatebrigade)
“How accidental our existences are, really, and how full of influence by...”
– Louis I. Kahn (via fratures)
