January 2010
12 posts
“I married beneath me. All women do.”
– Lady Astor
“Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams....”
– J. Michael Straczynski
“Love doesn’t always have a happy ending, but love doesn’t have an...”
– Cuquita Rangel
“Each line of your encounter will get easier to read and digest until the end of...”
– Melissa Jun Rowley, to me, in a private note.
“No self-portrait is truly candid.”
– Synthetic Pubes
No Left Turns
by Michael Gartner
My father never drove a car.
Well, that’s not quite right.
I should say I never saw him drive a car. He quit driving in 1927, when he was 25 years old, and the last car he drove was a 1926 Whippet.
“In those days,” he told me when he was in his 90s, “to drive a car you had to do things with your hands, and do things with your feet, and look every which...
“Unless one believes in predestination, it is clear that the circumstances of any...”
– Catherine Millet, Jealousy
“What is sad is that Sadie Frost and Jude Law were married for years and the hot...”
– Morra Aarons-Mele, in regard to this.
“Qui totum vult totum perdit.”
– Seneca
“Gamble everything for love,
if you’re a true human being.
If not, leave
this...”
– Rumi
“This book is dedicated to:
My plastic surgeon, for making me look—and...”
– Dale Koppel, PhD. 