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So for me, touring could be a long, relentless grind, exhausting and soul-destroying. And that only refers to the onstage time,
For the first time it was clear to me that when we try to classify others by stereotypes of race, what we really mean is culture. The modes of behavior, dress, and habits of “The Other” that we find strange and exotic, or sometimes con-temptible, are cultural patterns developed over hundreds of generations in a specific locale, under local influences of weather, livelihood, diet, and daily customs.
where are we going? and why are we in this handbasket?
Thoreau, “At death, our friends and relatives either draw nearer to us, and are found out, or depart farther from us, and are forgotten.”
“You know, I used to think, ‘Life is great, but people suck,’ but now I’ve had to learn the opposite, ‘Life sucks, but people are great.’”
So many people feel trapped in the workaday predictability of their lives, and their frustrations and dissatisfactions can be simultaneously stimulated and soothed by a non-specific fantasy of “getting away.” But like all fantasies, this dream vision remained free of consequences, and that alone was the deep, cold distinction between fantasy and reality: No consequences.
“Like so many other truths, pointless.”
“That’s not hunting,” I wrote, “that’s just shooting.”
Sometimes the things dreamers do seem incomprehensible to others,
There’s money at one end, and a bank at the other.
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
“By the age of 40, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.”
“dealing with it,” or of “working through it.” No. This particular
This kind of It simply changes everything, and there’s no coming to terms with it. No deal to be made, no compromise. (I think Ayn Rand once wrote, “You can’t compromise with evil.”)
