"If you don't vote, you don't count,"

-- Vernon Dahmer

“What a tourist terms a plague of insects, the fly fisher calls a great hatch.”
“After the first glass of vodka you can accept just about anything of life even your own mysteriousness you think it is nice that a box of matches is purple and brown and is called La Petite and comes from Sweden for they are words that you know and that is all you know words not their feelings or what they mean and you write because you know them not because you understand them because you don't you are stupid and lazy and will never be great but you do what you know because what else is there?”
“Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose?”

Source : Theodore Sturgeon (2000). “A Saucer of Loneliness”, p.80, North Atlantic Books
“Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.”
“A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.”
“I do feel like once you know you are someone who is in the world and there are other countries and cultures, that stays with you and your decision-making forever.”
“Underground dance music - in the nicest way possible - it's amateur”

Source : "The D.J. Maestros Axwell and Ingrosso Aim to Shake the Rafters". www.nytimes.com. April 1, 2015.
“I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don't think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet.”

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