Because there is nothing sadder than losing yourself in love.

Alison Krauss & Robert Plant (Killing the Blues)

Every man has his own destiny: The only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

Henry Miller

Too trusting, yes, but then women usually are

Stevie Nicks (Beautiful Child)

Well, to hell with the sorrow & watered-down scenes
We'll burn us a bridge straight to heaven
Neko Case (Whip the Blankets)

Susan Stanton: Tell the truth.
Henry Burton: Ok, well, I was always curious about how it would be to work with someone who actually cared about-- I mean, it couldn’t always have been the way that it is now. It must have been very different when my grandfather was alive. Well, hey, you were there! You had Kennedy, I didn’t. I’ve never heard a president use words like “destiny” and “sacrifice” without thinking “bullshit”, and well, maybe it was bullshit with Kennedy too, but people believed it and I guess that’s what I want. I want to believe it. I want to be a part of something that’s history.

Primary Colors

Great art picks up where nature ends.

Marc Chagall

Momentum for the sake of momentum

Neko Case (Lion’s Jaws)

Such is the glorious and macabre power of love.

Alanna (Walk)

The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.

Allen Ginsberg

Ancient strings set feet alight to speed to her
Such mild grace
No monument of tacky gold
They smooth her hair with cinnamon waves
And they placed an ingot in her breast
To burn, cool and collected
Fate holds her firm in its cradle
And then rolls her for a tender pause to savor

Neko Case (Margaret Vs Pauline)

Do anything, but let it produce joy.

Henry Miller

You are in love with
& I'm ready to sail
It's just a feeling

Stevie Nicks (Bella Donna)

Chance meeting your perfect other, your perfect opposite, your
protector & endangerer. Chance embarking with this other on
the greatest of journeys-- a search for Truths fugitive &
imponderable.

Dana Scully, The X-files (Trust No.1)

The richness in life lies in memories that are forgotten.

Cesare Pavese

There is nothing perfect. There is only life.

Sue Monk Kidd, Secret Life of Bees

But that old world was also once filled with love, & trust, &

laughter, & a faith that two imperfect people make something
more perfect together.

Innisfree, Falter

It always has to come to this
Red bells ring this tragic gun
Lost sight of the overpass
The daylight won't remember her
When speckled fronds raise 'round your bones
Who took the time to fold your clothes?
& shook the valley of the shadows?

Neko Case, Deep Red Bells

One imagines the birth of happiness to be accompanied by some
great spectacular upheaval. One can imagine it flowering in the
most luxurious setting. Yet happiness is born of a trifle, feeds on
nothing.

Mariama Bâ

Oh, I am a lonely painter
I live in a box of paints
I'm frightened by the devil
& I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraid
I remember that time that you told me, you said
Love is touching souls
Surely you touched mine
Because part of you pours out of me
In these lines from time to time.

Joni Mitchell, A Case of You

I wish I was a headlight, on a North bound train;
I'd shine my light through cool Colorado rain.

Grateful Dead, I Know You Rider