Oct 5, 2011

"I don't mean it's interesting that they float," Teddy said. "it's interesting that I know about them being there."

Teddy looked at him directly for the first time. "Are you a poet?" he asked.
"A poet?" Nicholson said. "Lord, no. Alas, no. Why do you ask?"
"I don't know. Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotion."

J.D. Salinger
Nine Stories

Oct 2, 2011

Trust your heart, buddy.

"The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly."

J.D.Salinger