For inspirational whatnots, my dear bearded friend Steve and I have committed to sending each other daily quotes. Here are quotes from the first week: I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves. - Sartre
Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard. - Helene Cixous
The world fears a new experience more than it fears anything. Because a new experience displaces so many old experiences.... The world doesn't fear a new idea. It can pigeon-hole any idea. But it can't pigeon-hole a real new experience. - David Herbert Lawrence
I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets. - David Herbert Lawrence
No matter what terror the earth could produce - winds, seas - a person could produce the same, lived with the same, lived with all that mixed-up nature swirling inside, every bit. There was nothing as complex in the world - no flower or stone - as a single hello from a human being - Lorrie Moore
The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying. - John Berger
Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?" - Clarice Lispector
Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this. — Richard Brautigan
Facts are the enemy of truth. - Cervantes (Don Quixote)
...in matters of love, no affair is easier to conclude successfully than the one supported by the lady's desire. Cervantes (D. Quixote)
Sanity is a cozy lie - Susan Sontag
