quote of the day

“water, water, everywhere
and all the boards did shrink
water, water everywhere
nor any drop to drink.”

-samuel taylor coleridge, the rime of the ancient mariner

quote of the day

“…if beneath all our criticisms and detestations of America’s vulgarity, misuse of power, and sheer pompous stupidity there has been still some optimistic love affair with the secret potentialities of this nation, some buried unvoiced faith that the nature of America was finally good, and not evil, well, that faith has taken a pistol whipping in the last months.  the romance seems not even tragic or doomed, but dirty and misplaced.”

-norman mailer, cannibals and christians

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“so this is hell. i’d never have believed it. you remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the “burning marl.” old wives’ tales! there’s no need for red-hot pokers. HELL IS—OTHER PEOPLE!”

-jean paul sartre, ‘no exit’


QUOTE OF THE DAY

“you never change things by fighting the existing reality. to change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

– buckminster buller