"No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our lives are made. Destiny is made known silently."
~Agnes de Mille

~in the bathroom at The Starving Artist

"If you cannot be a poet, be the poem."
~David Carradine

"The more you do what you want, the more magic happens."
~Erika Wanenmacher

“I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.”
~Woody Allen

"It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy."
~Lucille Ball

"It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth what I paid?"
~Richard Bach

~from an Ace Hotel bathroom in New York

"He's a guy who you would think couldn't leave me because he slept in a bunk bed."
~Elaine Reid, on a guy who she thought was a safe bet, but wasn't

"Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment -- the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is."
~Jorge Luis Borges

"It takes 9 months for society to catch up with what happens today. You are finally a musical sensation. In 9 months everyone will agree."
~jG Francis, and his words of encouragement for me

"He was alone. A wall, a flight of stairs, an open road."
~Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

“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
...

"No you're not." ~me
...

"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 Reid, 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