All I Can Say

Oscar Wilde and The Princess Bride

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."  — Oscar Wilde


Indigo Montoya: Who are you? I must know.
Dread Pirate Roberts: Get used to disappointment.
— from The Princess Bride

e.e. cummings, I think

nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands

*Thanks to Sky, the line is finally properly attributed to e.e. cummings, and the poem in its entirety can be found in the comments. That e.e. sure bucked convention when it came to punctuation.

Edna St. Vincent Millay and James Taylor

My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends –
It gives a lovely light!

Edna St. Vincent Millay, First Fig

Now I used to think that I was cool
Running around on fossil fuel
Until I saw what I was doing
Was driving down the road to ruin.

James Taylor, Traffic Jam, 1977

Albert Einstein

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

Victor Frankl

"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way."