All Boys Are

“Do you like him much?'

'I told you I liked him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much: he is full of faults.'

'Is he?'

'All boys are.”

Charlotte Brontë, Villette

Food For Thought

“Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.”

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Words To Live By

"What could possibly matter more in life than a cheap, momentary thrill?"

Ashleigh Brilliant

Words To Live By

"It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive."

Robert Louis Stevenson

Quote Of The Day

"I am just too much."

Joan Crawford

Maxims For Living

"I don't want realistic. I want magic!"

Tennessee Williams

Words To Live By

“All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.”
Alexander Woollcott

Capote Quote

"Life is a moderately good play

 with a badly written 3rd act."

Truman Capote

Words To Live By

"We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody & they don't have books, don't fuck them."
John Waters

Don't tell me you don't know what love is

When you're old enough to know better

When you find strange hands in your sweater

When your dreamboat turns out to be a footnote

I'm a man with a mission in 2 or 3 editions

& I'm giving you a longing look

Everyday, everyday, everyday I write the book

Chapter 1 we didn't really get along

Chapter 2 I think I fell in love with you

You said you'd stand by me in the middle
 of Chapter 3

But you were up to your old tricks in
 Chapters 4, 5 & 6

The way you walk

The way you talk, & try to kiss me, & laugh

In 4 or 5 paragraphs

All your compliments & your cutting remarks

Are captured here in my quotation marks

& I'm giving you a longing look

Everyday, everyday, everyday I write the book

Don't tell me you don't know the difference

Between a lover & a fighter

With my pen & my electric typewriter

Even in a perfect world where everyone was equal

I'd still own the film rights
 & be working on the sequel

& I'm giving you a longing look

Everyday, everyday, everyday I write the book

Elvis Costello

1983

Maxims By G.B. Shaw

Self Portrait Photograph

"Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself."

"Very few people can afford to be poor."

"Virtue is insufficient temptation."