“I wish I didn’t work in a bar
where intelligent conversation
gets impossible after nine-fifeteen a.m.”

-Denis Johnson

“At no time in the history of man has the world been so full of
pain and anguish. Here and there, however, we meet with
individuals who are untouched, unsullied, by the common grief.
They are not heartless individuals, far from it! They are emancipated
beings. For them the world is not what it seems to us. They see
with other eyes. We say of them that they have died to the world.
They live in the moment, fully, and the radiance which
emanates from them is a perpetual song of joy.”

Henry Miller

“The master of ineptitude has all time
as his domain. He surrenders only in the
face of eternity.”

Henry Miller

we slink around
the truth, avoid
complications brought
about by admittance,
and all the while
what we crave
is the desire to be
compatible.