“There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing”
~Kahlil Gibran

"I'm 6'8"." ~DCM
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"No you're not." ~me
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"I should be, with this attitude." ~DCM

"Maybe she would get a chance soon. Else what the hell good had it all been--the way she felt about music and the plans she had made in the inside room? It had to be some good if anything made sense. And it was too and it was too and it was too and it was too. It was some good.
All right!
O.K.!
Some good."
~Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

"What if what I'm wanting is the wanting?"
~me, to myself

“All lovers live by longing, and endure...”
~Theodore Roethke

“The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do”
~Orison Swett Marden

"The good thing about having the frosting here, is you can put it on like butter."
~Elaine Reed, with a big cupcake in one hand and the frosting in another

“Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.”
~Corazon Aquino

“Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.”
~Albert Einstein

"I had beer yesterday and it was served in a boot."
~Jeremy Burgan

"Bethany is like an orchid, she needs to be misted, not flooded."
~Maggie Cohn

"Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads. Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it's yours.”
~Ayn Rand

"Their music moves my pants."
~a woman to me, at a Local Natives show

"It's a broken heart in the middle of the forest. I almost died making it... I'm still in debt cause of this heart."
~Joel Morley/Otis Pig, on the giant heart he built out of mirrors which you stepped inside of to see yourself

"Unless you believe, you will not understand."
~Saint Augustine

"To be a hero was almost like being a great musician."
~Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth."
~Benjamin Disraeli

"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
~Harold Wilson

"The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection."
~Bertrand Russell

~before a Local Natives CMJ show at Santos in New York

"You're a kid dating a rock star. I'm pondering chemistry.com." ~DCM, while flipping me off

"It's no wonder I feel like I can conquer the world, all I listen to is LL Cool J." ~jG Francis

"Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing."

~Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

"It's going to take more than a one dollar taco to kill me."

~Eric Trujillo, after violently choking on a one dollar taco at Malo

"The truth is, I only have to receive and give what I am able. There is no risk. The intimacy, the interconnectedness of all life that is the love to which we all belong, can only be given and received. It cannot be taken."

~Oriah Mountain Dreamer

"Aventures don't have anything to do with cable."

~Regan Blayne, on her decision to cancel cable and start having a more adventurous life

"It seems kind of dead." ~me
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"You just said that, right?" -Melanie Caselas, as we were walking through the Hollywood Forever Cemetary looking for a party

“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
~Steve Jobs (posted this before, but it's just so good, I decided to post it again)

“I cannot promise very much.
I give you the images I know.
Lie still with me and watch.
We laugh and we touch.
I promise you love. Time will not take that away.”
~Anne Sexton

"I'm not gay...I don't think..."
~Ry Sarmiento, in response to his friends calling him "gay" in the 7th grade for listening to Elliot Smith and Wilco