"Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy that are ordinarily not called upon - deeper and deeper strata of explosible material, ready for use by anyone who probes so deep. The human individual usually lives far within his limits. " ~William James

"Um, I got drunk on the plane and now I am confused at the airport." ~Sara Kaye

"I understood, after long nights of drinking 'hooch' and smoking blunts with the neighborhood Xhosa boys, that my guilt did nothing but bore them. They preferred that I dance."
~Courtney E. Martin, Sun Magazine, Issue 387

"What is to give light must endure burning." ~Viktor Frankl

"Don't breathe my air--you need other ingredients or you're gonna die." ~jG Francis, on relationships

"I don't need jumbo shrimp, what I need is my sanity."
~Jamie Masters, on bad relationships

"Smooth as a baby's bottom, if a butt was made out of metal. A robot's butt." ~Jeremy Burgan, on his bass strings

"I want to punch you in the face with my mouth." ~me to him

"Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also." ~Robert Browning

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world of possibility not born until they arrived, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."~Anais Nin (thank you Amanda)

"I'm gonna start burning mustard on my buns."
~Sara Kaye Larson, on In-N-Out

"There are so many broken unicorns in here."
~jG Francis, in a thrift store in Victorville, CA

"Every one of us is losing something precious to us,' he says after the phone stops ringing. 'Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads--at least that's where I imagine it--there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in a while, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you'll live forever in your own private library." ~Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

"I need my wife, she solves all the mathematical problems for me." ~Albert Einstein

"The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."
~Allan K. Chalmers

"Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking.
It is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails."
~I Corinthians 13:4-8

"The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love." ~Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker

"Let's cut to the chase and buy you a shock collar."
~me, on making it work

"We can in fact only define a weed, mutatis mutandis, in terms of the well-known definition of dirt - as matter out of place. What we call a weed is in fact merely a plant growing where we do not want it." ~Sir Edward James Salisbury, The Living Garden

"Perhaps what we were looking for was not necessarily greener grass, but grass that we could admire (whatever its condition) because it was not our own." ~Alain de Botton, On Love

"Each person deserves to be treated like a person."
~Jemaine, Flight of the Conchords

"I wish we had a dune buggy." ~Sara Kaye, on the open road in Death Valley

"I've just found some bowls for my cats!" ~a mustachioed lady yelling across a thrift store in Victorville, CA

"Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning." ~Joseph Campbell (thank you Amanda)

"A person's life purpose is nothing more than to rediscover, through the detours of art or love or passionate work, those one or two images in the presence of which his heart first opened." ~Albert Camus

"If you bring forth the genius within you, it will free you. If you do not bring forth the genius within you, it will destroy you." ~Jesus, The Gospel of Thomas

"I don't think this place takes credit cards. I think they only take Civil War money." ~Sara Kaye Larson, at a gas station somewhere along the Pearblossom Highway

"He's got that look like he's running from something, but his bike's tapped out at 70." ~Fudge

"If do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people." ~Virginia Woolf