BUMP CITY!
"Here I became aware of the world's tenderness, the profound beneficence of all that surrounded me, the blissful bond between me and all creation, and I realized that the joy I had sought in you was not only secreted within you, but breathed around me everywhere, in the speeding street sounds, in the hem of a comically lifted skirt, in the metallic yet tender drone of the wind, in the autumn clouds bloated with rain. I realized that the world does not represent a struggle at all, or a predaceous sequence of chance events, but shimmering bliss, beneficent trepidation, a gift bestowed on us and unappreciated." - Vladimir Nabokov
"L'amore giunger." - Luciano Pavarotti
"Though much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are,
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." - Alfred Tennyson
"This is not the sound of a new man or crispy realization. It's the sound of the unlocking and the lift away. Your love, will be safe with me." - Bon Iver
"Damnant quod non intelligunt." - Latin saying
"I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us." - Charles Bukowski