When people seem simple and dull, it’s we who aren’t paying attention enough, it’s our stubborn inborn tendency to see other people as major or minor characters in our story.
Where’s Freddy Adu?
Maybe don't read this while sitting in a house in Guatemala City
“Guatemala is a good place to commit a murder, because you will almost certainly get away with it,” a U.N. official has said.
"Irony requires a certain amount of self-confidence," Lydia says. “You have to have built enough of an identity to turn around and reject it, or to laugh at it. I think that’s something that takes time.”
"I refuse to give in to that feeling of despair. There is light in this situation. I urge everyone, read up about those who were hurt and or killed in this shooting. You will be comforted by just how much anonymous goodness there really is in the world. You read about the people and you realize that people that you don’t even know, people that you’ve never met are leading lives of real dignity and goodness, and you hear about crazy but it’s rarer than you think. And I think you’ll find yourself even more impressed with Congresswoman Giffords and amazed with how much living some of the deceased packed into lives that were cut way too short. If there is real solace in this, I think it’s that for all the hyperbole and vitriol that’s become a part of our political process, when the reality of that rhetoric, when actions match the disturbing nature of words, we haven’t lost our capacity to be horrified. And please god, let us hope we never do. Let us hope we never become numb to the real horror, to what the blood of real patriots looks like when it’s spilled. Maybe it helps us to remember to match our rhetoric with reality more often because the reality of dangerous rhetoric is that I think even those who speak hyperbolically I think all of them tonight would absolutely recoil and say, ‘Wow, that’s, you know, that is not the picture of what we were discussing and what we were talking about and I have to remember that there’s a reality to that situation that we can’t approach verbally’ because someone or something will shatter our world again and wouldn’t it be a shame if we didn’t take this opportunity and the loss of these people and the incredible pain that their loved ones are going through right now, wouldn’t it be a shame if we didn’t take that moment to make sure that the world that we are creating now, that will ultimately be shattered again by a moment of lunacy, wouldn’t it be a shame if that world wasn’t better than the one we’ve previously lost." - Jon Stewart
“I wouldn’t have been in such a rush to reach adulthood if I’d known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed.”
“If you have two people, and one of them is promising but lying to you and the other is refusing to promise anything,” he explained to me, “you will still prefer the first.”
It is a fuckload of work to be open-minded and generous and understanding and forgiving and accepting, but Christ, that is what matters. What matters is saying yes.
I mean, I guess?
Great expectations
Calvin:What grade did you get, Susie?
Susie:I got an A.
Calvin:Really? Boy, I'd hate to be you. I got a C.
Susie:Why on earth would you rather get a C than an A?!
Calvin:I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone's expectations.
Things not to lose.
And maybe Final Jeopardy will be “Fun Hats to Wear at Parties.” Computers don’t get invited to parties. Therefore We Win!
Beckham made the game feel like a spy movie; Zidane made it feel like a war. Ronaldo made it feel like joy.
There is really no such thing as selling out.
You really shouldn't need the New York Post to tell you not to eat seafood from the Gowanus Canal →
shield your eyes: The Novelist →
Encased in talent like a uniform,
The rank of every poet is well known;
They can amaze us like a thunderstorm,
Or die so young, or live for years alone.
They can dash forward like hussars: but he
Must struggle out of his boyish gift and learn
How to be plain and awkward, how to be
One after whom…
The Irish people and their country are like lovers whose passion is heightened by their suspicion that they will probably wind up leaving each other.
Kurt Cobain sounds like a good dad
Well, aside from the whole suicide thing.
Do you worry about the impact that your work, lifestyle and ongoing war with supercelebrity are having on Frances? She seemed perfectly content to toddle around in the dressing room tonight, but it’s got to be a strange world for her.
I’m pretty concerned about it. She seems to be attracted to almost anyone. She loves anyone. And it saddens me to know that she’s moved around so much. We do have two nannies, one full-time and another older woman who takes care of her on weekends. But when we take her on the road, she’s around people all the time, and she doesn’t get to go to the park very often. We try as hard as we can, we take her to preschool things. But this is a totally different world.
