July 2009
“If you’re going to be a writer, you have to be willing to be nasty. The...”
– Edith Templeton
“Never forget that the camera is, after all, only a mechanism — devoid of...”
– Thomas H. Miller, This is Photography
“What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
“The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it...”
– Elizabeth Hardwick
“The Patience of Ordinary Things” It is a kind of love, is it not? How the cup holds the tea, How the chair stands sturdy and foursquare, How the floor receives the bottoms of shoes Or toes. How soles of feet know Where they’re supposed to be. I’ve been thinking about the patience Of ordinary things, how clothes Wait respectfully in closets And soap dries quietly in the...
“He who does not travel does not know the value of men.”
– Moorish proverb
I can’t explain how happy I am right now.
“The habit of despair is worse than despair itself.”
– Albert Camus, The Plague 