December 2010
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It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation — of loneliness, poverty and misery, the end and extreme of all things, the thought of God comes into one’s mind.
—Vincent Van Gogh
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I plot to get what I want and end up in prison, I dig pits to trap others and fall in.
I should be suspicious of what I want.
—Rumi (via pedrosanchez)
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Actually, film operates on a level much closer to music and to painting than to the printed word, and, of course, movies present the opportunity to convey complex concepts and abstractions without the traditional reliance on words. I think that 2001, like music, succeeds in short-circuiting the rigid surface cultural blocks that shackle our consciousness to narrowly limited areas of experience and...
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It’s important not to indicate. People don’t try to show their feelings, they try to hide them.
—Robert De Niro
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The long migrations meet across you and it is nothing to you, you have forgotten us, mother. You were much younger when we crawled out of the womb and lay in the sun’s eye on the tideline. It was long and long ago; we have grown proud since then.
—Robinson Jeffers
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We can mourn. We live the strangeness of being momentary.
—Jack Gilbert
