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Do A Better Job on The Wings
“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
— Anna Quindlen — How Reading Changed My Life.
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Writing takes more courage than non-writers know. It’s a lonely profession, but most of us who jigsaw words for a living do so, paradoxically, with a crowd peering over our shoulders: the spectral presence of every sneering critic who’s ever eviscerated our books. It’s hard to write when you can’t hear yourself think over the sound of knives being sharpened.
— Mark Dery
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“I’ve never been certain whether the moral of the Icarus story should only be, as is generally accepted, ‘don’t try to fly too high,’ or whether it might also be thought of as ‘forget the wax and feathers, and do a better job on the wings.”
— Stanley Kubrick
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I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger than reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
