Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
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Anand Thakur
Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
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Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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The basic human rhythm of petty malevolence, sordid moneygrubbing, and official violence, illuminated by occasional bursts of loyalty or desire or tenderness, will go on.
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Over all, there are now more people under “correctional supervision” in America-more than six million-than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height.
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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The past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it was still the present.
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I am a guilty party here – to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.
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There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend
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Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper.
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Writing doesn’t come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency
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If we are willing to act violently in pursuit of a peripheral interest, everyone can be certain that, when a vital interest is at stake, we will be still more violent.
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The light in your eyes shines because of the longing in your soul. And the longing in your souls rises because you are looking for the lost half minute.
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Something is missing, we think. And so we long for the thing we’ve missed and can’t name, and out of that wanting – well, everything else rises, good and bad.
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Protein was the most valued ingredient 250 years ago: It was the rarest thing. Now the rarest thing we have is time: time to cook and time to eat.
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