Quotes of the Week

"You, as an artist, have the greatest responsibility of all. You are charged with trying to make people feel, in a world that tells them not to. You are tasked with speaking soft words, painting, playing, filming, writing moments of such magnitude and beauty that people rediscover their hearts one more time. You are here to give meaning to the few decades we spend here. That is the reason you were sent to Earth"
-"I Wrote This For You" blog

 "We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves. I wish for all this to be marked on my body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography- to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience. All I desired was to walk upon such an earth that had no maps."
-The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje

 "Be ye transformed by the renewing of your soul."

 "The first step- especially for the young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money- the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art."
-Chuck Palahniuk

 "The truth is that what fascinates me is not so much being in a place as not being there: how places live in the mind once you have left them, how they are imagined before you arrive, or how they are seemingly called out of nothing to illustrate a thought or story like my tree down yonder. These mental spaces map our inner lives more fully than any "real" map, delineating the borders of here and there that also shape what we see in the present. My private geography, like most people's, excludes huge portions of the world."
-Siri Hustvedt "Yonder"

 -C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader