Peter

“I’m sure now’s the time in my life to be doing a lot of things I’m not doing. I feel bad about that. But even worse is knowing that when i’m eighty-four I’ll look back on where I am now and think: those were the days.”
― Ariel Leve, It Could Be Worse, You Could Be Me: Witty Essays on Life's Comic Misfortunes for David Sedaris Fans

“The Gautama Buddha instructs me to walk away from illness. But he wasn't attached to a drip.”
― Derek Jarman

“The lesson for this Round, as we shall hear time and again, is that each generation inhabits a different acoustic universe, constituted by different musics and memories of sound, by different thicknesses of walls and densities of traffic, by different means of manufacture and broadcast, by different diets and ear-damaging diseases, by different proportions and preponderances of metal rattling in kitchens, clanging on the streets, or ringing in the ( differently polluted) air above.”
― Hillel Schwartz, Making Noise: From Babel to the Big Bang & Beyond

“Uw brief uit Siwa viel op mijn grauwe leven neer, als een rozeblaadje op het oppervlak van een troebele beek.”
― Iwam Toergenjew