April 2012
2 posts
March 2012
1 post
February 2012
4 posts
INTERVIEWER
You were particularly drawn to tragedy, then?
MILLER
It seemed to me the only form there was. The rest of it was all either attempts at it, or escapes from it. But tragedy was the basic pillar.
“I think I reserve for plays those things that take a kind of excruciating...”
– Arthur Miller
“There’s nothing like death. Dying isn’t like it, you know....”
– Arthur Miller
“May you say the things I have tried to say long after I am not there to say...”
– Geoffrey Bach Smith
January 2012
7 posts
“It is almost like a church, because you’re going to that room, you know your...”
– Sade on the recording studio, but it could really be Sade of any sacred creative space (via austinkleon)
“Young people ask me about becoming a writer, and they really haven’t read, not...”
– John Updike (via austinkleon)
“When in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes,
I all alone beweep my...”
– Sonnet 29
William Shakespeare
14 Actors Acting →
My most important New Year’s resolution is to kiss someone next New Year’s Eve. For serious.
December 2011
13 posts
I think @itswilltime should drive to Portland and have some whiskey with me. #friendship #roommateship #WillandAndyChristmas
“Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics; I can assure you that mine...”
– Albert Einstein
“It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the...”
– Bertolt Brecht
could use some Disneyland right about now.
They don’t call it hell week for nothing.
November 2011
2 posts
“The search for truth and knowledge is one of the finest attributes of man—though...”
– Albert Einstein
“The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.”
– Albert Einstein
October 2011
9 posts
RT @bprior22: Realized all items on my wish list are boots, flannels, & other cold weather wear. Wonder where my head is @ living in SoC …
Heartache abounds. “When sorrows come, they come not single spies
But in battalions.” W.S.
Sucker punched. Goodnight, Moon.
Goodnight, Moon.
has once again survived his workout and lives to die another day.
“I think I write in order to discover on my shelf a new book that I would enjoy...”
– Thornton Wilder (via austinkleon)
is officially an old man. I celebrated my birthday with scotch, a sweater, and dreams of piping outside a cabin.
And it’s official. Ole Delly just died.
RT @zachbraff: Arrested Development coming back for another season. I really hope they need another #nevernude.
September 2011
8 posts
Workouts 2. Big Anderz 0. But it’s early in the season right? #pleasedonttrademe
If I don’t recover from this morning’s workout, I request MWS’s “Friends Forever” for my funeral. 2 key changes please.
6 tags
“If you don’t take money, they can’t tell you what to do. That’s the key to the...”
– Bill Cunningham (via)
Who wants to drive to Colorado Springs on Monday?
My glasses broke. So I will be rocking Geek Chic for the remainder of the week.
“For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is...”
– Martin Luther
2 tags
“We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Experience,” collected in Essays and Lectures (via austinkleon)
August 2011
4 posts
4 tags
“Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but...”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Wind, Sand and Stars (He was writing about the engineering of airplanes.)
“A girl goes out into the world to find herself. Only she finds she’s the same...”
– Jessa Crispin, asking, “Is it possible to fail at travel?” (via austinkleon)