Innately, the female knows how to cripple by sickening a man with guilt. It is a very special destruct, and she sends her curse to make a fellow impotent. As if she says, 'Unless I allow it, you will never more be a man.'

Dr Tamkin in Saul Bellow's Seize the Day.

It is the one who is not in love who makes the tender speeches

Alain de Botton

I should write again

I should write again. I feel I really should do.

Write. Something else. Not briefs or speeches or recruitment ads.

Write.

What then should I write about?

I feel like Christian who's moved to bohemian Montmartre to live a penniless existence as a writer, who believes in all that is important - beauty, freedom, truth and above all... love. But he had one problem - he's never been in love!

And I... I have nothing to write about.

Babe the Diver

 

Mahout

Happy New 2011

What is the feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's goodbye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.

On The Road with Jack