Held to the past too aware of the pending
Loiter the whole day through and lose yourself in lines dissecting love.
– The Shins, Past And Pending
And if you’d ‘a took to me like
A gull takes to the wind.
Well, I’d ‘a jumped from my tree
And I’d a danced like the king of the eyesores
And the rest of our lives would ‘a fared well.
– The Shins, New Slang
Sixty people looking down at twelve million. That’s really something. For thirty dollars you can spend an hour looking down on twelve million people.
– Jerzy Kosinski, The Devil Tree
No one can help me find answers, least of all some one who claims he’s found a solution to life.
– Jerzy Kosinski, The Devil Tree
Harmony is so essential. Is there pleasure when there is a passage, there is when every room is open.
– Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons
But we are all travelers in what John Bunyan calls the wilderness of this world – all, too, travelers with a donkey; and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend. He is a fortunate voyager who finds many. We travel, indeed, to find them. They are the end and the reward of life. They keep us worthy of ourselves; and, when we are alone, we are only nearer to the absent.
– R. L. Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
…let her go at her own pace, and let me patiently follow.
– R. L. Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
There is something better than music in the wide unusual silence; and it disposes him to amiable thoughts, like the sound of a little river or the warmth of sunlight.
– R. L. Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
…but you never can tell wherein a man’s life consists, nor in what he sets his pleasure…
– R. L. Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
You be damned to be one of us, girl,
Faced with the dodo’s conundrum
I felt like I could just fly
But nothing happened every time I tried.
– The Shins, Australia