A point of fulcrum

"There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be."-- John Fowles, The Magus

Quote of the day

"[H]e was a man who for ten years had kept his mind filled with dark and heart-broken thinking. He had not been courageous; he had never tried to put any other thoughts in the place of the dark ones. He had wandered by blue lakes and thought them; he had lain on mountain-sides with sheets of deep blue gentians blooming all about him and flower breaths filling all the air and he had thought them."
--Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

My new maxim

Forever part with disappointment: embrace pessimism! As a pessimist, when things do not turn out well I have the satisfaction of having correctly predicted the outcome. The few times when they actually do, I am happy because my low expectations have been exceeded by the course of events. In other words, as a pessimist you can never lose, at most it’s a draw. -- P.A. Gardinali 

 

Margaret Atwood on adulthood

"I do of course have a real life. I sometimes have trouble believing in it, because it doesn't seem like the kind of life I could ever get away with, or derserve. This goes along with another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."
--Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

Wild Thing

"When you can dump a hundred and seventy million barrels of crude into the Gulf of Mexico and take a write-off on the cleanup, cost-efficiency doesn’t really enter into it.”

 --John Bazell, Wild Thing