“I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”

William James

“The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”

Ernest Hemingway

“When we heard about the hippies, the barely more than boys and girls who decided to try something different… we laughed at them. We condemned them, our children, for seeking a different future. We hated them for their flowers, for their love, and for their unmistakable rejection of every hideous, mistaken compromise that we had made throughout our hollow, money-bitten, frightened, adult lives.”

June Jordan, Passion: New Poems, 1977 1980 

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”

Jimi Hendrix

“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”

Aristotle, The Philosophy  of Aristotle

“Looking at the stars always makes me dream.”

Vinecent Van Gogh

“She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank and had midnight swims.”

“We were together. I forget the rest”

Walt Whitman

“With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?”

Oscar Wilde