Mike

“If you don’t know why you like a thing, it is usually worth your while to attempt to find out.”
― Paul Bowles

“Beauty is and always will be blue skies and open highway.”
― Dave Hickey, The Invisible Dragon: Four Essays on Beauty

“(For the first time in months) he put his arm around her; but his hand, reaching her shoulder, did not close upon it, only rested there. They swayed a little, standing in the doorway, still holding each other together in a way of holding each other back: they still waited, being moved over the surface of time like two swells upon the sea, one so close upon the other that neither can reach a peak and break, until both, unrealized, come in to shatter coincidentally upon the shore.”
― William Gaddis, The Recognitions

“Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job; it takes a wise man to make it without working.”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office