The Road / Cormac McCarthy

Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.
You forget some things, don't you?
Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
"To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong." Joseph Chilton Pearce

"If you press me to tell why I loved him, I feel that this cannot be expressed,
except by answering: Because it was he, because it was I."
Michel de Montaigne, "Of Friendship"

Saturday, December 4, 2010

It pains me to know that my friend is in pain. How do you deal with sadness--when something terrible has happened to her and just knowing that makes you feel terrible? Ann Patchett must have dealt with this all the time. With Lucy. I've become so careful for her that I don't quite know what to do. To be there, to still love her and care for her and understand her. To pray for her.
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A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

Vladimir Nabokov

Just like William Carlos Williams!
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Thursday, December 2, 2010

Primal

The word Mr. Paul Goldstein '92 used to describe Dartmouth. From Latin root primus, meaning "first."
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