are you dreaming, Frederick?

"You get what anyone gets--you get a lifetime."
--Neil Gaiman


"They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog and for no good reason."
--Ernest Hemingway


"To love is not to look at one another, but to look together in the same direction."
--Antoine de Saint-Exupéry


"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent."
--John Donne


"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
--Oscar Wilde


"Love me for stupid reasons--
I like those the most
Wide-eyed but worth believing--
God knows...

"Damn the angry voices that keep us quiet,
The editor whose work is never done
Keeping pretty words between my teeth and
Sweet confessions underneath my tongue
Drowsy contemplation: do I let you in?
This is my invitation
But how do I begin?"
--Sarah Slean, "My Invitation"


"So I walk like I'm on a mission
'Cause that's the way I groove
I got more and more to do
I got less and less to prove
It took me too long to realize
That I don't take good pictures
'Cause I have the kind of beauty
That moves"
--Ani DiFranco, "Evolve"


"There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal."
--Martin Luther King Jr, "Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam"


"A genuine revolution of values means in the final analysis that our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies. This call for a worldwide fellowship that lifts neighborly concern beyond one's tribe, race, class, and nation is in reality a call for an all-embracing, unconditional love for all men. This oft misunderstood and misinterpreted concept, so readily dismissed by the Nietzsches of the world as a weak and cowardly force, has now become an absolute necessity for the survival of mankind. And when I speak of love I'm not speaking of some sentimental and weak response. I am speaking of that force which all of the great religions have seen as the supreme unifying principle of life. Love is somehow the key that unlocks the door which leads to ultimate reality. This Hindu-Muslim-Christian-Jewish-Buddhist belief about ultimate reality is beautifully summed up in the first epistle of John: 'Let us love one another, for God is love. And every one that loveth is born of God and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God, for God is love. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us and his love is perfected in us.' "
--Martin Luther King Jr, "Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam"


"The Moving Finger writes; and having writ,
Moves on; nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a word of it."
--Omar Khayyám


"Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne."
--James Russell Lowell


"Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle."
--Marianne Williamson

"I hope we are always ridiculous with hope."
--Sarah Slean

"In the morning he read. This meant that he started on the first page and finished on the last. He was not a skimmer or a sniffer; he read meticulously, as if, swimming, he were being filmed in slow motion. The text swept him away and consumed him--he was like a man (the man in the bedclothes in his father's tale) drawn down by an undertow. Slowly, slowly, the imaginary cinema recorded his heavy resisting gulps. Reading was as exhausting to him as the long, weighted strokes of a drowning man. He gave it all his power."
--Cynthia Ozick, The Messiah of Stockholm

"All stories are true, some just never happened."
--Neil Gaiman