"Would you not like to try all sorts of lives — one is so very small— but that is the satisfaction of writing — one can impersonate so many people."
Katherine Mansfield (via ddbthewriter)
"People should not be put behind bars for smoking pot. I mean, pot smokers can’t commit crime. They can barely get it together to order a pizza. They are no menace to society. I’m not afraid of a gang of red-eyed, cotton-mouthed, paranoid stoners coming to jack me for my visine and cookie dough."
Margaret Cho: Assassin
"The highest form of intelligence is the ability to observe without evaluating."
Jiddu Krishnamurti
"I don’t like Google’s attitude in general, actually. It’s a little bit smug, isn’t it? Like if you make one little spelling mistake. ‘Didn’t you mean?’ in sarcastic italics…"
Russell Brand
“Now this is what I call a lot of dope.” (The Beach)
"If we’re not gonna make it, it’s gotta be you that gets out, ‘cause I’m not capable. I’m fuckin’ Irish- I’ll deal with somethin’ being wrong for the rest of my life."
Collin Sullivan, The Departed.
"If you’re listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; it’s purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold ever more wonders."
Andrew Harvey
"On my flight home this afternoon, I scrolled through the site. I read pages and pages of people shouting in all caps ‘I’VE NEVER HEARD OF THEM!’ as if that’s a valid musical critique, as if that’s anything but a braying declaration of proud ignorance. As if somehow the prefab pop royalty whose handlers dropped the most money on promotion are promised a Grammy as a kind of birthright, the way that Will Smith’s kids are guaranteed hit singles and blockbusters if they want them; the way that Gwyneth Paltrow is apparently allowed to show up anywhere at any time and sing, whether or not we want to hear her. I’ve never heard Esperaza Spalding either, but now I’m excited to. It was fun to watch the losers win for a change."
Will Sheff of Okkervil River for Billboard Magazine, on the Who is Arcade Fire Tumblr and his (somewhat surreal) experience attending the Grammys (courtesy of Maura’s Twitter)
"On Tuesday, American nuclear physicists announced that they were working on research regarding atom splitting, to recreate and prove the Big Bang Theory. I have a suggestion: how about you don’t. How about you guys start a little smaller, with something not so possibly earth-destroying? Like, why smoke detectors with low batteries only go off at four o’clock in the fucking morning."
Bill Maher (via beautilation)
"What is with the insane moral code in this family?"
Gob Bluth, Arrested Development
