December 2009
16 posts
“Pilon complained, ‘It is not a good story. There are too many meanings and too...”
– from Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
“If I knew where the good songs came from, I’d go there more often. It’s a...”
– Leonard Cohen, in Songwriters on Songwriting, by Paul Zollo
“And in vain I seek my absence, simpler than the mules
of prophets passing over...”
– Mahmoud Darwish
“Like flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for sport.”
– Shakespeare
“Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.”
– Vivien Leigh
“It’s easier to love a demon than a man, though less heroic.”
– Margaret Atwood
