January 2012
11 posts
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept...”
– Harvey Fierstein
Adult Advice from Children's Books - 2
“People have stars, but they aren’t the same. For travelers, the stars are guides. For other people, they’re nothing but tiny lights. And for still others, for scholars, they’re problems. For my businessman, they were gold. But all those stars are silent stars. You, though, you’ll have stars like nobody else.”
“What do you mean?”
“When you look up at the sky at night, since I’ll be living on...
Adult Advice from Children's Books - 1
“What is REAL?” asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. “Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?”
“Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time,...
Children's Books for Adults
Though it’s a fact most don’t know about me, I collect old children’s books. I’ve got shelves full of them and to this day I still can’t walk past an old book store without walking in, heading straight for their children’s section and looking for ‘The Little Prince’ or ‘Alice in Wonderland’. And while it may seem strange to some people,...
“We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for...”
– Albert Einstein
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it...”
– Groucho Marx
Set Insights: Number 1
Downtime. You’ll find you either have absolutely none, or an absurd amount of it. I mean full night’s sleep in the middle of the day absurd… Or 16 hours without sitting still, which many would find equally nutty.
Today is a mostly downtime day though…
For example: I just took an hour long nap on a bed in another character’s fake apartment while 5 people ran...
“An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an...”
– Mitch Hedberg
The End of the World
I’ve been thinking a lot about apocalypses recently… apocali? Or is it more like apoc-ellipses.
Anywho, I digress.
No, it’s not out of some emo, poetic, ‘we all die alone!’ sense of self-loathing. Honestly, I’ve just recently found myself pondering, among other things, how little our planet’s decimation (and consequently, that of our entire species)...
Charlie Chaplin in 'The Great Dictator'
I’m sorry but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible; Jew, Gentile, black men, white.
We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that.
We want to live by each others’ happiness, not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise...
“Faith is no reason for hate, vengeance is no excuse for murder, and hate should...”
– Me, and I will stand behind this until the day I die