“People are strange when you’re a stranger.”

Thelonious Monk playing “Honeysuckle Rose”.

Life doesn’t require ideals. It requires standards of action.”

Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain.

Streaming in through the window, the moonlight cast long shadows and splashed the walls with a touch of diluted Indian ink.

zelkova tree

You try too hard to make life fit your way of doing things. If you don’t want to spend time in an insane asylum, you have to open up a little more and let yourself go with life’s natural flow.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

I realize that all I can place in the imperfect vessel of writing are imperfect memories and imperfect thoughts.