February 2013
Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger.
- Pico Iyer
8:08 PM Feb 28th
Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love.
- Pico Iyer
6:30 AM Feb 28th
Better to watch the stream that flows across the floor and is made of sunlight,
the forest made of shadows; better to watch the fireplace which is now a beach.
- Margaret Atwood
6:30 AM Feb 27th
We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
- Anaïs Nin
6:13 AM Feb 27th
You have to welcome both your own strangeness and your own fierceness.
- Jane Hirshfield
6:30 AM Feb 26th
Today I do not even dare to reproach myself. Shouted into this empty day, it would have a disgusting echo.
- Franz Kafka
7:30 AM Feb 25th
Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.
- David Foster Wallace
10:00 AM Feb 24th
I feel more and more, every day, as my imagination strengthens, that I do not live in this world alone, but in a thousand worlds.
- John Keats
2:03 PM | Feb 23rd
In writing there is only one thing that counts: the thing you can't explain.
- Georges Braque
2:02 PM Feb 22nd
Everyone should have themselves regularly overwhelmed by nature.
- George Harrison
6:00 AM Feb 22nd
this is really something to see rather than to talk about. it's like a great colorful and surprising painting not hanging anywhere else.
- Charles Bukowski
6:01 AM | Feb 21st
I think most things are pretty magical, and that it's less a matter of belief than it is one of just stopping to notice.
- Neil Gaiman
6:30 AM Feb 20th
A poem is almost an argument with the world.
- Mary Ruefle
3:00 PM Feb 18th
It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.
- Paul Auster
8:18 AM Feb 18th
Who will winter my immortality with me?
Who will thaw with me?
- Vera Pavlova
8:18 PM Feb 17th
I am a history
a memory inventing itself.
- Octavio Paz
9:00 PM Feb 16th
Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
- Lao Tzu
6:00 AM Feb 15th
Don't listen to me; my heart's been broken.
- Louise Glück
2:18 PM Feb 14th
I fall daily in love with impossibilities.
- Anne Sexton
1:30 PM Feb 14th
Who the hell said you no longer had it in you?
- Charles Bukowski
7:00 AM Feb 13th
In the mirror, the face and its reflection watch each other; different, but one.
- Tukaram
6:00 AM Feb 13th
Once, I was a poet, and, like all poets, I spent too long in the Kingdom of Dreams.
- Neil Gaiman
6:00 AM Feb 12th
If the world weren't such a beautiful place, we might all turn into cynics.
- Paul Auster
6:45 AM Feb 11th
Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
- Hunter S. Thompson
6:00 AM Feb 8th
Sometimes we need somebody who's not living in our skin to point out how things really are.
- Charles de Lint
7:00 AM Feb 7th
I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too.
- Neil Gaiman
6:01 AM Feb 7th
I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done.
- Ray Bradbury
6:00 AM Feb 6th
There are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails.
- Charles Bukowski
6:00 AM Feb 5th
To get out of hell you expand your soul until it is pushing on all the walls from the inside all the way around.
- Tom Robbins
7:00 AM Feb 4th
I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.
- Neil Gaiman
6:01 AM Feb 4th
So we don't know ourselves and we don't see ourselves, and we all make the world together.
- Paul Auster
7:00 PM Feb 2nd
Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?
- David Baldacci
3:06 PM Feb 2nd
When you say words a lot they don't mean anything. Or maybe they don't mean anything anyway, and we just think they do.
- Neil Gaiman
6:00 AM | Feb 1st
- Pico Iyer
8:08 PM Feb 28th
Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love.
- Pico Iyer
6:30 AM Feb 28th
Better to watch the stream that flows across the floor and is made of sunlight,
the forest made of shadows; better to watch the fireplace which is now a beach.
- Margaret Atwood
6:30 AM Feb 27th
We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
- Anaïs Nin
6:13 AM Feb 27th
You have to welcome both your own strangeness and your own fierceness.
- Jane Hirshfield
6:30 AM Feb 26th
Today I do not even dare to reproach myself. Shouted into this empty day, it would have a disgusting echo.
- Franz Kafka
7:30 AM Feb 25th
Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.
- David Foster Wallace
10:00 AM Feb 24th
I feel more and more, every day, as my imagination strengthens, that I do not live in this world alone, but in a thousand worlds.
- John Keats
2:03 PM | Feb 23rd
In writing there is only one thing that counts: the thing you can't explain.
- Georges Braque
2:02 PM Feb 22nd
Everyone should have themselves regularly overwhelmed by nature.
- George Harrison
6:00 AM Feb 22nd
this is really something to see rather than to talk about. it's like a great colorful and surprising painting not hanging anywhere else.
- Charles Bukowski
6:01 AM | Feb 21st
I think most things are pretty magical, and that it's less a matter of belief than it is one of just stopping to notice.
- Neil Gaiman
6:30 AM Feb 20th
A poem is almost an argument with the world.
- Mary Ruefle
3:00 PM Feb 18th
It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.
- Paul Auster
8:18 AM Feb 18th
Who will winter my immortality with me?
Who will thaw with me?
- Vera Pavlova
8:18 PM Feb 17th
I am a history
a memory inventing itself.
- Octavio Paz
9:00 PM Feb 16th
Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
- Lao Tzu
6:00 AM Feb 15th
Don't listen to me; my heart's been broken.
- Louise Glück
2:18 PM Feb 14th
I fall daily in love with impossibilities.
- Anne Sexton
1:30 PM Feb 14th
Who the hell said you no longer had it in you?
- Charles Bukowski
7:00 AM Feb 13th
In the mirror, the face and its reflection watch each other; different, but one.
- Tukaram
6:00 AM Feb 13th
Once, I was a poet, and, like all poets, I spent too long in the Kingdom of Dreams.
- Neil Gaiman
6:00 AM Feb 12th
If the world weren't such a beautiful place, we might all turn into cynics.
- Paul Auster
6:45 AM Feb 11th
Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
- Hunter S. Thompson
6:00 AM Feb 8th
Sometimes we need somebody who's not living in our skin to point out how things really are.
- Charles de Lint
7:00 AM Feb 7th
I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too.
- Neil Gaiman
6:01 AM Feb 7th
I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done.
- Ray Bradbury
6:00 AM Feb 6th
There are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails.
- Charles Bukowski
6:00 AM Feb 5th
To get out of hell you expand your soul until it is pushing on all the walls from the inside all the way around.
- Tom Robbins
7:00 AM Feb 4th
I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.
- Neil Gaiman
6:01 AM Feb 4th
So we don't know ourselves and we don't see ourselves, and we all make the world together.
- Paul Auster
7:00 PM Feb 2nd
Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?
- David Baldacci
3:06 PM Feb 2nd
When you say words a lot they don't mean anything. Or maybe they don't mean anything anyway, and we just think they do.
- Neil Gaiman
6:00 AM | Feb 1st
