“She wants to know if I love her, that’s all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet.” ~Jonathan Safran Foer

“Mamihlapinatapai: A look shared by two people with each wishing that the other will initiate something that both desire but which neither one wants to start.”

“You eventually learn that true priorities are like arms; if you think you have more than a couple, you’re either lying or crazy.” ~Merlin Mann

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” ~Oscar Wilde

“Writers tend to work early in the morning, or late at night, when brains are naturally able to focus deeply on one thought. In the middle of the day, distractions are unavoidable. I wonder if anything worthwhile has ever been written in the afternoon.” ~Scott Adams

“Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? I mean pure psychedelic inebriation. Not just lustful petting but transcendental metamorphosis when you became aware that the greatness of this being was breathing into you. Licking the sides and corners of your mouth, like sealing a thousand fleshy envelopes filled with the essence of your passionate being and then opened by the same mouth and delivered back to you, over and over again – the first kiss of the rest of your life. A kiss that confirms that the universe is aligned, that the world’s greatest resource is love, and maybe even that God is a woman. With or without a belief in God, all kisses are metaphors decipherable by allocations of time, circumstance, and understanding.” ~Saul Williams

“Magic is in all of us and in everyone who believes they can make beautiful things happen. It’s in a first kiss, in fireworks, running with your girlfriend down the beach at midnight, screaming into the sky. It’s falling in love and falling down the rabbit hole. It’s in your dreams and imagination.

We can all use magic.”

“The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart” ~Alan Alda

“In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.” ~Toni Morrison

“In eras past, mainstream culture was blandly, blindly complacent, so underground music was angry and dissatisfied. But now, mainstream culture isn’t complacent, it’s stupid and angry; underground culture reacts by becoming smarter, more serene. That’s not wimpy—it’s powerful and productive.” ~Michael Azerrad in Paste, February 2010 issue