Songwriting on the front porch steps When everyone else is out in town Clearing a cluttered mind slowly Watching the passive rain coming down Raincoats do little to lighten the mood So we stay away from the elements Waiting for drier days to participate Shore leave was no more than an accident The winds foretell … Continue reading Songwriting On The Front Porch Steps
Even Through All The Mire
Photo by Markus Spiske on Pexels.com Even through all the mireI still believe in sunshine & rainbowsGod’s gift to all the peopleThe Promise from a long time ago The negative headlines dampen my spiritsTheir evil reflecting through leaded glassBut I shall not be tempted to hateI’ve chosen to survive; I’ve chosen to pass Insecurity masquerading … Continue reading Even Through All The Mire
She’s Got That All-American Smile
She’s got that All-American smile Tiny white tank & rose-colored glasses Down to Earth - gotta love juicy peaches Finding her irresistible- playful sasses Midnight releases you from logical restraints The deliberate unclasping of your retro garters Trying to be the gentleman this tux suggests But with your teasing, it just makes it harder I’m … Continue reading She’s Got That All-American Smile
The Winter Is Too Warm
The winter is too warm But it’s too cold for tanlines The beach not quite deserted But I think that’s just fine I could use some freedom But you’d just call that semantics Splitting hairs when I’d rather Be engaging you in some bedroom antics You’d blush and slap my cheek But that’s mere foreplay … Continue reading The Winter Is Too Warm
I’m Supposed To Be Embarrassed By Floridian Winters
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com I’m supposed to be embarrassed by Floridian winters Somehow downhearted by this temperate heat The way we can wear summer clothes While y’all are scraping ice off the streets But like how I’m not wearing a down parka I’m not sure how there can be this much sweat I’m not … Continue reading I’m Supposed To Be Embarrassed By Floridian Winters
The Winter Nights Have Been Rough
Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels.com The winter nights have been roughLeaving you with dreams of latitudesFreeze warnings when already coldUnfavorable forecast sounding rather rude Its tough when the temps plummetFeeling victim to strange cosmic collusionsBut don’t fret, it’ll be 77℉ Thursday& we’ll be suffering from nipple confusion
Persistent Chants In The Winter Breeze
Photo by Suzy Hazelwood on Pexels.com Persistent chants in the Winter breezeThoughts of her beauty & I start to wheezeI wish to taste her freshly bathed skinThrough all the heartache, I’d do it all againFor she’s still the one to knock me to my knees
I Can’t Write With This Cluttered Mind
Photo by Sindre Stru00f8m on Pexels.com I can’t write with this cluttered mindToo many tabs pulling at my attentionStructures of thought too often recedeFailing me when I most need comprehension I’m tired of dreaming of the love I wantI’m tired of writing peace line by lineWhere do we find a comforting solaceLasting longer than the … Continue reading I Can’t Write With This Cluttered Mind
With The Chill Of Winter Settling In
Photo by Ketut Subiyanto on Pexels.com With the chill of winter settling in The horizon proves a coming storm I convince her we need to strip naked And cuddle to remain warm Preparing for the long, cold season Always keeping her flesh within reach Needing her to bundle me up Never mind we’re down on … Continue reading With The Chill Of Winter Settling In
Listening To These Winter Winds
Photo by Ekaterina Astakhova on Pexels.com Listening to these Winter winds I sure miss kissing your ruby lips I’m cold these days; alone Dreaming of holding your naked hips That’s where my hands need to be Memories of your perfect back arched Seeing the outline of your love Leaves my mouth permanently parched
A Decade…
Thank you to everyone who has stopped by to say hello and support me. I know I’ve been MIA lately, but I’m still here!
Philistines!
I’m Feeling Messy These Days
I’m feeling messy these days Allowing myself to know my emotional state Without any guilt attached to my depression Yet still filled with anxiety & hate They told me to just get over it I received a letter by standard post They said it's not service related I think that’s what hurt the most My … Continue reading I’m Feeling Messy These Days
Banned Poets Arrested For Subversive Thought
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Banned poets arrested for subversive thoughtAre we the worst kind of panhandlers in this late stage capitalism?Peddling our wares / wordsYet I’m of that worst kindI went to sea without a degreeFlorida is still the end of the roadDrawing interest from unscrupulous sortsWe have to make it here
Summer Days Are Numbered
Photo by Bradley Hook on Pexels.com Summer Days are numberedBefore gin heiress takes a piece of meLow-toned cocktails shakenBy the silver fox of Palm Valley She mixes technicolor stimuliRecycling references & touchstonesHer calico dress stretchesRejuvenating sips leads to unintentional moans A sunset brings filtered focusGolden hour views from the terraceI take my drink & humbly … Continue reading Summer Days Are Numbered
A Study In Inexact Notions
Photo by vjapratama on Pexels.com A study in inexact notionsDifferences upon the prospective sceneOur unruly burdens confound usNothing to save us when life turns mean Yet we can never let apathy rule the dayIn these times, we must be all the more awareKnowing truth can be unpopularYet compassion is the way to genuinely care
Let’s Normalize Matrons Flashing
Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels.com Let’s normalize matrons flashingI fancy the unexpected & a little brashShe gets my eyes swirling & I’m lightheadedFully transfixed; my heart’s going to crash I can’t help but stare at her dancer’s legsMy eyes keep placing them in second positionThe way they move without effortMy pulse quickens; a love … Continue reading Let’s Normalize Matrons Flashing
I’m Not Very Good At Being Social
Photo by Cameron Casey on Pexels.com I’m not very good at being socialNever been comfortable in the lightQuietly shuffling back to the shadowsI’m not looking for a fight Feeling inferior with all these charmsSubdued enchantment of the stageAttention makes me feel uncleanRetreat from prying eyes; time to burn some sage I don’t have panic attacks … Continue reading I’m Not Very Good At Being Social
Bobbing My Head To Taylor
Photo by Ju00c9SHOOTS on Pexels.com Bobbing my head to TaylorWondering why I wouldn’t look cuteWith my lips painted shades of redI’m nothing if not a social failureAll the exterior opinions rendered mootFor it's the expectations of strangers I’ve shed
Transfiguring Lips Into Fabergé Petals
Photo by Rakicevic Nenad on Pexels.com Transfiguring lips into Fabergé petalsFeeling decadent painting the night skyLet us rejoice with our illustrious wordsPalpitating deliberately when bliss is nighThese fanciful & bountiful thoughts of yonderPossibly plentiful but not quite enough for usImaginative; creating a softer substantial sideWe’re most serene when we’re a bit mussed
Panic Attacks At The Waffle House
Photo by Artem Saranin on Pexels.com Panic attacks at the Waffle HouseSmacked by anxiety first thing Christmas mornToo much going on / overstimulationMy mind is no place to be so adorned Quietly doing my best amidst the strifeWhere can I go to firmly escapeDuties & pressure of this daily existenceThis life hides hope behind heavy … Continue reading Panic Attacks At The Waffle House
Wading Through Seawater In Your Dress
Wading through seawater in your dressClinging to your delicious curvesExposing the universe to meStanding at attention; all my nerves You’re the anomaly of this worldVirtue & flexibility of our seamsWrap your legs around my mindAllow me the most sensuous dreams Never to rejoin this delinquent societyLet me lead you with hands on your hipsTo paradise … Continue reading Wading Through Seawater In Your Dress
I Have A Specific Set Of Skills
I have a specific set of skillsThat aren’t exactly useful by dayHaphazardly moving ideas aroundCreating worlds; as if by molding clay Each word significant by their own mightA genius for ignoring any rational factsMy mind can produce surprising beautyIf I can only let it be still & relax You’re not likely to find any published … Continue reading I Have A Specific Set Of Skills
Slow Cooking In The Floridian Sunshine
Slow cooking in the Floridian sunshine Double blinking in a new school of thought Sweat pooling in our sandy crevices Don’t know how it’s going to get actually hot We, the undocumented intellectuals The ones without canon fodder ties The ones that can thrive in this heat We’ll survive- literary or otherwise
you didn’t think
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com but you didn’t think beauty could create such artthat somehow I was too vapid to rearrange the worldwords offensive before they left your mouthdo we blame your lips or your mindlight another match to brew the coffeeit’s a shame; what could be done with such a mouth
Patriotism Isn’t An Aesthetic
Patriotism isn’t an aesthetic To be conglomerated into the war complex Raytheon stickers for your Jeep Wrapping your little soldier in the flag when your wife lets you have sex Your definition of liberty stinks of fragile nationalism Unsure footing when your time ran out Playing ‘don’t break the ice’ with life The wilting ego … Continue reading Patriotism Isn’t An Aesthetic
Empty Wine Bottles Clink; Devoid Of All Inspiration
Photo by Anastasia Shuraeva on Pexels.com Empty wine bottles clink; devoid of all inspiration But that’s not the way you remembered they bled Choosing the perfect wording for posterity A trembling shadow of what the poets once said We once set out to create a fresh universe But that’s not the way I can any … Continue reading Empty Wine Bottles Clink; Devoid Of All Inspiration
The Summer Is Already Sweltering
The summer is already sweltering I’m trying to survive, so I have nothing on The neighbor lady won’t stop staring Perhaps I shouldn’t be out here watering my lawn 
Low Lit Morning, Fueled By Diet Dr. Pepper
Photo by jasmin chew on Pexels.com Low lit morning, fueled by diet Dr PepperReason doesn’t apply with a heartbreak mixtapeA chipped soul stuck in a eternal commuteMisfocused thoughts back by silhouette shapes Bukowski‘s ghost drawn & quarteredPainted as Sisyphus on the rib cageOur flaws smell like copulationAvoiding definitions on the page Our pens, unsure of … Continue reading Low Lit Morning, Fueled By Diet Dr. Pepper
Those Words Come To Me In Those Coffee Dreams
Those words come to me in those coffee dreams A spontaneous marvel of literary delight There’s a difference between manufactured beauty & a real beauty, founded by nature’s authentic right But I can’t explain the nuances within the definition I’m not one to judge such subjective whims Focusing on my own qualms & dangling thoughts … Continue reading Those Words Come To Me In Those Coffee Dreams
Stop The Hate
We must join together and stop the hatred that is spreading around the world.
Such A Difference
Such a differenceIn a button or twoHow you tease meThe way you do My weary spiritsBegin to riseYou make it hardTo look you in the eyes...
My Whole Life On Scraps Of Paper
My whole life on scraps of paperMy soul jotted down on the pagePlot lines between scribblesCharacter development as we age Everything that I am, right herePushing to further keep my mind trainedMy heart's secret smudgedWithin these lines my identity is contained
It’s Blistering Out There Today
It’s blistering out there today Don’t know what I’m going to do in this heat Definitely time to start peeling off clothes It’s not my style to be covert nor discrete You smirk & don’t know what’s the matter Hiding your eyes, yet peeking through fingers But I wink, giving you my mischievous grin My … Continue reading It’s Blistering Out There Today
Photo by Bianca on Pexels.com After posting almost every day since 2017, I just didn’t post on Wednesday. I did not think anything of it. It was just something I didn’t do. Being a poet is such a large part of my personality. I often feel inherent pressure to create. I feel … Continue reading
Time To Say Goodbye
My time has come to a close on another trip to Japan. Over the past 15 years I’ve been blessed to visit 3 times, including a year in 2007. I’ve experienced a lot that I never dreamed I would do. I don’t know if I will ever be back, but I’m glad I’ve had this … Continue reading Time To Say Goodbye
William Blake
“Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.”William Blake
Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta
"Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor... Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, … Continue reading Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Dorthy Parker – Brevity
“Brevity is the soul of lingerie.” – Dorothy Parker
William Butler Yeats
"But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams." - William Butler Yeats Image by Brin Weins from Pixabay
Bob Dylan – It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBNWkCsmqAY If the video doesn't load, click the link It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) There's a Closed Caption feature if you'd like to read the lyrics. This world is a mess. Please take a moment to listen to Bob's message from 58 years ago. It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding) WRITTEN BY: BOB DYLAN … Continue reading Bob Dylan – It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
Tired.
Yogi Berra
"Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.” ― Yogi Berra
Independence Day
Not as funny as it once was...yet still funny!
Bobbe Sommer
“Having a low opinion of yourself is not 'modesty.' It's self-destruction. Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not 'egotism.' It's a necessary precondition to happiness and success.” ― Bobbe Sommer
Chloe Thurlow
“Eating the peach is a meditation. Your mind empties of all the must dos and should have dones. You are pure being. Your lover’s tongue is the key that turns the lock that opens the pleasure box. Life has few perfect moments; moments of cunnilingus score the highest on the sex blissometer.”― Chloe Thurlow, … Continue reading Chloe Thurlow
Well, I Find It Funny…
Born and raised in Arizona. This speaks to me. Be careful the energy you put out into the world.
True Love
Photo by Flora Westbrook on Pexels.com But how can you be sure? This is true love-you think this happens every day? -The Princess Bride, William Goldman
Jerry Garcia
Jerry Garcia August 1st, 1942 - August 9th, 1995
Save The Hammer For The Man
Brokenhearted On A Monday Afternoon
Brokenhearted on a Monday afternoonMourning the loss of a piece of my heartThe giant, jerk dog was always thereThis can’t be the end; merely the startI never got a chance to truly say goodbyeFor I never believed you’d be goneThat you’d bounce back, like you always didBut always isn’t now & I can’t move onI … Continue reading Brokenhearted On A Monday Afternoon
Kristoff
No poem today. I'm going to take the day to grieve for Kristoff. I'll be back tomorrow.
Tom Waits – Pasties & A G-String
Blowing In The Wind
Robert Hunter
"...mercy's a business, I wish it for you More than just ashes when your dreams come true…" -Fire On The Mountain- Grateful Dead, words by Robert Hunter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW7iKqoGEQ8
Laura Ingalls Wilder
"Home is the nicest word there is." - Laura Ingalls Wilder
John Muir
“The world's big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.”― John Muir
Gautama Buddha
"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection." Gautama Buddha
Twain
"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare." - Mark Twain Image by Jill Wellington from Pixabay
Friedrich Nietzsche
"One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Agatha Christie
“After all, perhaps dirt isn't really so unhealthy as one is brought up to believe.”― Agatha Christie, Murder in Mesopotamia
Stephen Chbosky
“There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.” ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
SkyFall
It’s not a crime to be pretty Wearing rented dresses, searching for a breadwinner Socialites & other plastic people No redeeming qualities, but she wants to be thinner Her vagina will accept almost anything Whether it be dollars, pounds, marks or kroner A consummate professional at all times She expects to be well paid … Continue reading SkyFall
Hermann Hesse
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.” ― Hermann Hesse Image by Karen Warfel from Pixabay
Walt Whitman
“Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass, Be not afraid of my body.” -Walt Whitman
Stephen Fry
"I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the alter of language and purity and tolerance." - Stephen Fry
Leo Tolstoy
“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.” ― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata
Edgar Allan Poe
“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.” ― Edgar Allan Poe
Dorothy Parker – Cactus
“I may not be a cactus expert but I know a prick when I see one.” – Dorothy Parker Image by icondigital from Pixabay
North To Alaska
A few scenes from my walk around Anchorage today. It's a beautiful town. I wish I had more time to dig a little deeper.
Honoré de Balzac
"Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.” ― Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
"Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be." -Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Image by rawpixel from Pixabay
Margery Williams
"He didn't mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real shabbiness doesn't matter.” ― Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
William Shakespeare – All’s Well That Ends Well
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” ― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
Thoreau
"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.” ― Henry David Thoreau
Pope St. Gregory the Great
"The proof of love is in the works. Where love exists, it works great things. But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist." --Pope St. Gregory the Great
W. Somerset Maugham
"When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.” ― W. Somerset Maugham
Word of the Day
This is amazing.
Frida Kahlo
"They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality." - Frida Kahlo Image by Jinali Parikh from Pixabay
John D. MacDonald
“Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will. Integrity is not a search for the rewards of integrity. Maybe … Continue reading John D. MacDonald
Tom Waits
"If you're in the middle of the ocean, with no flippers and no life preserver and you hear a helicopter, this is music. You have to adjust to your needs at the moment." - Tom Waits
Ernest Hemingway
"The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too." Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women
Charles Dickens
“In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected." (Frauds on the Fairies, 1853)” ― Charles Dickens, Works of Charles Dickens Image by JSchley from Pixabay
Trust
"I don't trust anything that popular. It borders on the levels of Nazism or the Macarena."
Ray Bradbury
“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.” ― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
Nell Zink
"Even his fucking was binary, a sorting process by which certain practices could be tried and found wanting or approved and accorded benchmark status." - Nell Zink, The Wallcreeper
Walt Whitman
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.” ― Walt Whitman
Allen Ginsberg
“We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter.” ― Allen Ginsberg, Howl and Other Poems
George Bernard Shaw
"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversations." - George Bernard Shaw
Elizabeth, Mr. Darcy & Captain Barbosa
Peter Pan
"All it takes is faith, trust, & a little pixie dust." - Peter Pan ✨
Tana French
“I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other kind. Women blow my mind. The stuff that routinely gets done to them would make most men curl up and die, but women turn to steel and keep on coming. Any … Continue reading Tana French
Milton
"What though the field be lost? All is not lost; th'unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield. - Milton: Paradise Lost, 1667
Cervantes
"My honor is dearer to me than my life." - Cervantes: Don Quixote, 1604
Leon Trotsky
"The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves." - Leon Trotsky
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fairytales
Edith Sitwell
“I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.” ― Edith Sitwell
Albert Einstein
“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.” ― Albert Einstein
Frida Kahlo
"I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling." - Frida Kahlo
Joss Whedon
“Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.” ― Joss Whedon
Anaïs Nin
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.” ― Anaïs Nin
Christian Dior
“By being natural and sincere, one often can create revolutions without having sought them.” ― Christian Dior
Thomas Jefferson
Coltrane
"To try to become a saint." - John Coltrane (when asked what he was going to do next)
Shakespeare
"As it is base for a soldier to love; so I am in love with a base wench." - William Shakespeare: Love's Labor Lost, 1594
Edgar Allan Poe
“I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.” ― Edgar Allan Poe
Jodi Picoult
“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.” ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
Margaret Chittenden
“Many people hear voices when no one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up in rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing.” ― Margaret Chittenden
Hans Christian Andersen
"Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers." - Hans Christian Andersen Image by iris Vallejo from Pixabay
William Shakespeare
"With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.” ― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
Aristotle
“Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.” ― Aristotle
Leo Tolstoy
“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Nikita Gill
"...Anxiety makes more heroes than history would care to repeat." - Nikita Gill
Last Night…
I was fortunate enough to see Bob Weir & the Wolf Brothers last night. It was an amazing show. I definitely recommend seeing them or Dead & Company this summer.
William Butler Yeats
"But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams." - William Butler Yeats Image by Brin Weins from Pixabay
Bikini Weather!
I'll just leave this here...
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Happy Valentine’s Day (early)
Oscar Wilde
Baby, It’s Cold Outside
Happy Friday!
Jingle Bell Rock
Another One For October 🎀💝
In Honor Of Breast… 💝🎀
In honor of breast cancer awareness month...💝🎀
#mood
In case you’re sad the weekend is coming to an end…
Oscar Wilde
“Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.” ― Oscar Wilde
A Dirty Mind
Early Morning Thoughts…
Things Have Changed
Handle With Care
Pixie Dust
Here is another poem from BB with a Neverland theme.
I miss the magic
I let it slip away
I grew up
while you continued to play
I miss the magic
I just let it go
the age on my face
yes, it’s starting to show
I miss the magic
between us
you’ll be forever Peter Pan
while I’m still searching for Pixie Dust
Return to Neverland
If you know me, you know that this is my favorite subject! If you don’t follow BB, please do. You won’t be sorry!
And so I wait patiently
for I know he will return to me
I snuggle in and close my eyes
I keep my window open wide
Under my pillow I keep a kiss
for my own lost boy, whom I so miss
Hoping his shadow finds a way to my room
I find myself in dreamland soon
“Are those happy thoughts” he wants to know
I nod, so he says “then away we go”
Second star to the right, straight on ’til morning
come fly with me, my Darling
Fly with me to Neverland
where dreams are born, and time is never planned
Karl Lagerfeld
"Music gives color to the air of the moment." Karl Lagerfeld
P.J. O’Rourke
"Don't vote, it just encourages the bastards." -P.J. O'Rouke
James Baldwin
“All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.” ― James Baldwin
Ambrose Bierce
"Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math." Ambrose Bierce
Ayn Rand
"The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone." Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
Marcel Proust
“A person has no need of sincerity, nor even of skill in lying, in order to be loved. Here I mean by love reciprocal torture.” ― Marcel Proust, The Captive & The Fugitive
C.S. Lewis
“True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.” ― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
Tom Robbins
"Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and transcendence there might be in a well-made taco and a cold bottle of beer." Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
Robert Louis Stevenson
“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson
John Steinbeck
"I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible." John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Jerry Garcia
“Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.” ― Jerry Garcia
Leo Durocher
"Show me a man who doesn't go down on his wife and I'll show you a man whose wife I can sleep with, tonight." - Leo Durocher
Robert Frost
“The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.” ― Robert Frost
Coco Chanel
“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.” ― Coco Chanel
Oscar Wilde
“Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.” ― Oscar Wilde
Pablo Neruda
“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.” ― Pablo Neruda
Margaret Atwood
“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.” ― Margaret Atwood, Bluebeard's Egg
Oscar Wilde
“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.” ― Oscar Wilde
Lewis Carroll
"The time has come, my little friends, to talk of other things Of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings And why the sea is boiling hot, and whether pigs have wings Calloo, Callay, come run away / With the cabbages and kings" - The Walrus
John Quincy Adams
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.- John Quincy Adams
Coco Chanel
“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” ― Coco Chanel
Rita May-Brown
“I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.” ― Rita Mae Brown
Nelson Mandela
"It always seems impossible until its done." - Nelson Mandela
Roger Clyne
"My second home is a third world cantina." - Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers
Oscar Wilde
"I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde
It’s A Wonderful Life
Rachel! It's not exact, but here you go. "Remember, no man is a failure who has friends." - It's A Wonderful Life P.S. I'm super excited that I can figure out how to insert links. An old dog CAN learn new tricks! Ta-da! (spirit fingers)
Auden
"Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about." - W.H. Auden
Twain
"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare." - Mark Twain
Machiavelli
"Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times." - Niccolo Machiavelli: Discorsi, 1531
Scurvy Q 
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