Nora had been training herself not to think too much about her kids. Not because she wanted to forget them - not at all - but because she wanted to remember them more accurately. For the same reason, she tried not to look too often at old photographs...
The hope was, people like me got to finally find our place in college or in the actual world. People who understood this told you that high school wasn't the actual world, that it was more like a temporary alternate reality you were forced to believe...
Running a race assigns a point to a sport that often feels very pointless. It's an exuberant payoff to months of tedium. It's a way of crafting an end boss for a particularly cumbersome video game. It's a fun, monstrous reason to keep putting one foo...
One day, back when I working at a video store, a woman accompanied by her two small sons walked up the counter with a tape box displaying a man slicing off someone’s head with a chainsaw. “Does this have any sex in it?” she asked. In my mind, i...
Politics is clearly a not so happening topic in our young blood. I could clearly see many students yawning. Some might have been discussing the new Shakira video amongst themselves, the one shown on MTV these days. Bloody donkeys, if it was a porno m...
Roberta: [looking at a drawing of a man smashing another man's head in with a sledgehammer] What can you tell us about your piece, er... Phillip? Phillip: Er... it's about The Mutilator. Roberta: [smiling] My goodness! Phillip: It's a really great vi...
Juliet: [after watching Mark's video of her] But... you never talk to me. You always talk to Peter. You don't like me. Mark: I hope it's useful. Don't show it around too much. It needs a bit of editing. Look, I've gotta get to a lunch. Early lunch. Y...
I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.
Music is poetry with personality
I'm not from a music family at all.
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
Darlin... be-bop is the music of the future.
I'm not really into musicals.
Politics are not my arena. Music is.
Hawaiian music is beautiful and simple.
Music is universal; it's healing.
I'm not really a music guy.
It is easy to write unthinking music.
I was addicted to playing music.
I'm a fan of music in general.
I know music is subjective.
