On this page, I'm leaving some of my favorite quotes by people, living, dead, unknown, and known.

NEW! From my close friend, Mikel Mauree' Robinson on exercising your hidden, elusive talents...

”Things that elude us are just dormant genius waiting for the right moment.”

Anthony Bourdain on choosing fun...

“Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.”

Quote attributed to Margaret Atwood on writing the truth...

"The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you see your left hand erasing it."

From the poem, "somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond" by e.e. cummings.

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands

This from Wallace Stevens... very visual in its imagery. Poem was "O Florida, Venereal Soil"...

Swiftly in the nights,
In the porches of Key West,
Behind the bougainvilleas,
After the guitar is asleep,
Lasciviously as the wind,
You come tormenting,
Insatiable...

From one of my favorite writers, Hunter S. Thompson. I cut my literary teeth on his writings in Rolling Stone Magazine in the 70's. The man was an underestimated genius.

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."