Fiction = Humanity

"Fiction's about what it is to be a human being." 

- David Foster Wallace

Neil Gaiman's Instructions

"Remember your name. Do not lose hope — what you seek will be found. Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to help you in their turn. Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story." 

- Neil Gaiman, Instructions

Love Overflowing. Just Once.

“I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.” 

                                                                           ― Haruki Murakami

The Mad Ones Use Poetry

“Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.” 
        
            ― Jack Kerouac

"I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered lives and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life, never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives, our actual night, the hell of it, the senseless emptiness."

Setting Images to Words: Lake House Sunset

"The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire."

                                                                                                                  -- Pamela Hansford Johnson

Setting Images to Words: Pre Sunset

"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky." 

                                                                                                                         ~Rabindranath Tagore

Setting Images to Words: The Art of Beauty

"The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express." - Francis Bacon

(Some pictures come pretty close. . . )

Setting Images to Words: Sunrise

“What breaks in daybreak? Is it the night? Is it the sun, cracked in two by the horizon like an egg, spilling out light?”
                                                                                                                            ― Margaret Atwood

Art, Music and Poetry

“The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape.”

― Haruki Murakami

"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen."

                                                                                          ― Leonardo da Vinci

       

              

   

                                                                                            

Setting Images to Words: Dark Skies

"The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night."   

                                 
                                                                                                            - Haruki Murakami

From Nothingness

“We come spinning out of nothingness, 
  scattering stars like dust.” 

                                                      ― Rumi

The Sun Always Sets. And Rises.

"Do not go gentle into that good night ... Rage, rage against the dying of the light." 

- Dylan Thomas

"I was afraid of the dark.  
But now its all that I want.
All that I want.
All that I want.

And when the daylight comes I'll have to go

But tonight I'm gonna hold you so close

Cause in the daylight we'll be on our own

But tonight I need to hold you so close."

-- Maroon 5, Daylight

Nourishment. Connection.

"This is nourishing.  Redemptive.  We become less alone inside.
It might just be that simple."

-- David Foster Wallace

Please Find My Mind

“You're wrong. The mind is not like raindrops. It does not fall from the skies, it does not lose itself among other things. If you believe in me at all, then believe this: I promise you I will find it. Everything depends on this."

"I believe you," she whispers after a moment. "Please find my mind.”

― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World