"It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him."

-- Jim Bishop

#Mother Quotes #Father Quotes #Insomnia Quotes

“If I have not lost my mind I can sometimes hear it preparing to defect”
“[On journalists:] They are as disruptive a menace to the public body: as grating turds in the intestines are to the private body.”
“I had forgotten: this is what it feels like to live in time. The lurching forward, the sensation of falling of a cliff into darkness, and then landing abruptly, surprised, confused, and then starting the whole process again in the next moment, doing that over and over again, falling into each instant of time and then climbing back up only to repeat the process.”
“We might be workers, but we are not happy go-lucky jungle bunnies.”
“Amory Lovins says the primary design criteria he uses is the question How do we love all the children? Not just our children, not just the ones who look like us or who have resources, not just the human children but the young of birds and salmon and redwood trees. When we love all the children, when that love is truly sacred to us in the sense of being most important, then we have to take action in the world to enact that love. We are called to make the earth a place where all the children can thrive.”
“I think I was a singer before I came out of the womb. I also think that the way you live your life, and the choices you make parallel what doors open up for you.”
“I have a company that does design and animation, so obviously graffiti is definitely an intricate part of what we admire and respect in the art world.”
“What you're going to be eating in the next year is decided by chefs. If the consensus is that pot-bellies are in next season, that's what's on your plate. And I think that's a good thing, because we know, obviously, about food.”

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