Debbie Harry

“Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.”

—The Gay Science, §231.

“I do not love people who have to explode like bombs in order to have any effect at all. When one is near them one is always in danger of suddenly losing one’s hearing, if not more than that.”

—The Gay Science, §218.

Musician practicing in Central Park, 1956.

from Dino Buzatti’s Poema a Fumetti (Orfi aux enfers; Poem Strip)

A thousand pages of notes, thoughts, phone numbers, ideas, dates, dreams.

Like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker.

— Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

Ken Currie - The Troubled City

Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul.

— Douglas MacArthur