Patience

“In this there is no measuring with time, a year doesn’t matter, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means: not numbering and counting, but ripening like a tree, which doesn’t force its sap, and stands confidently in the storms of spring, not afraid that afterward summer may not come. It does come. But it comes only to those who are patient, who are there as if eternity lay before them, so unconcernedly silent and vast. I learn it every day of my life, learn it with pain I am grateful for: patience is everything!”

Rainer Maria Rilke - Letters to a Young Poet

You Belong Everywhere

I had them turn on the blue lights for a special reason.

Do you know why?

Do YOU know why?

No?

Let me tell you.

Because I'm sad.

I'm sad inside.

But I feel good on the outside.

And I've written a poem about it.

Tribute to The Ultimate Warrior

Charlie

You're just a tourist with a typewriter, Barton. I LIVE here. Don't you understand that?

You Have To Write

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.

AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS

Discover

 What's your advice to new writers?

"Read. Write. Read. Write. If you are moved by someone else's work, study it to discover how they made the magic."
 -Jenny Wingfield

17-year-old Girls

“You’ve got to be honest for it to lock with me, it’s got to have real things – a night I’ve had or an experience you look back on and go, ‘I’m glad I put this somewhere.’”

Forests

And that night, a forest grew.

Goodly Parents

Cause your momma is a worrier, and your papa is a warrior.

Tiny Beautiful Things

One hot afternoon during the era in which you’ve gotten yourself ridiculously tangled up with heroin you will be riding the bus and thinking what a worthless piece of crap you are when a little girl will get on the bus holding the strings of two purple balloons. She’ll offer you one of the balloons, but you won’t take it because you believe you no longer have a right to such tiny beautiful things. You’re wrong. You do.

Dear Sugar #64

Summertime Blues

Because just like the days,

I burn at both ends

They're going gorillas

I don't even know what that means.

No one knows what it means, but it's provocative.
It gets the people going.

Redemption

"I find I'm so excited I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it's the excitement only a free man can feel. A free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain.

I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope."

-Red

Mission Statement

Truth?
Sure.
I care about the job. Of course. But mostly, I just want to be inspired.
Me too.

What you wrote inspired me.
No, no.
No, hey. I'm working with you because of that memo. I love that memo.
It's a mission statement.

Time flies

There are times that walk from you like some passing afternoon.

Ignorance is...

Everybody's gotta learn sometime.

Commitment

I keep forgetting. You're just a tourist.

Strolling through Paris

JOHN: Where do you think Gil goes every night?

WENDY: He walks and gets ideas.

Day Off

I ditched work today. Took a train out to Montauk. I don't know why.

Landlocked Blues

I'm leaving, but I don't know where to.
I know I'm leaving, but I don't know where to.