we had goldfish and they circled around and around in the bowl on the table near the heavy drapes covering the picture window and my mother, always smiling, wanting us … See more

there’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I’m too tough for him, I say, stay in there, … See more

the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break vases against the walls and the men drink too much and nobody finds the on… See more

there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day and the best at murder are those who preach aga… See more

Van Gogh writing his brother for paints Hemingway testing his shotgun Celine going broke as a doctor of medicine the impossibility of being human Villon expelled from Paris f… See more