I cry a lot

I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more.

- Maurice Sendak

Any idiot

Any idiot can face a crisis — it's day to day living that wears you out.

- Checkhov

Most of the writers I know

Most of the writers I know are weird hybrids. There's a strong streak of egomania coupled with extreme shyness. Writing's kind of like exhibitionism in private. And there's also a strange loneliness, and a desire to have some kind of conversation with people, but not a real great ability to do it in person.

- David Foster Wallace

Dust of Snow

The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree

Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.

- Robert Frost

Winter is good

Winter is good - his Hoar Delights
Italic flavor yield -
To Intellects inebriate
With Summer, or the World -

Generic as a Quarry
And hearty - as a Rose -
Invited with asperity
But welcome when he goes.

- Emily Dickinson

What a circus

We're all going to die. What a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. we are terrorized and flattened by trvialities, we are eaten up by nothing.

- Charles Bukowski