Musings for today: Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. - Iris Murdoch
Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard. - Helene Cixous
"'I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms." - Clarice Lispector
The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it. - Pearl S Buck
There are years that ask questions and years that answer. - Zora Neale Hurston
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. - Margaret Atwood
A sunset can go on for days. You can eat up all the clouds in the sky. You can assemble a painting with a person in the North Pole over a phone, like playing chess. The painting method derives from as far back as the time of the Second World War when we had no food to eat, and my brother and I exchanged menus in the air. - Yoko Ono
Her life had taken on the shape of a terrible mistake. She hadn't been given the proper tools to make a real life with, she decided, that was it. She'd been given a can of gravy and a hair-brush and told, "There you go." She'd stood there for years, blinking and befuddled, brushing the can with the brush. - Lorrie Moore
The idea that you might end up in a job that doesn't allow you to be who you are, over the course of a lifetime, is still one of the most chilling nightmares to me. It's a good metaphor for fears I have about losing my soul in some accidental, mundane way. So, to me, these jobs that my characters have are very loaded. They immediately suggest a complex character to me, a woman who is, say, a secretary, but also a vigilante on behalf of her own soul." - Miranda July