j.k. says:

"well, how can that be real?"


"prove that it is not," said xenophilius.


hermione looked outraged. "but that's -- i'm sorry, but that's completely ridiculous! how can i possibly prove it doesn't exist? do you expect me to get hold of -- of all the pebbles in the world and test them? i mean, you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!"


"yes, you could," said xenophilius. "i am glad to see that you are opening your mind."

life =

up for invention!

ken says:

"SIMPLY MOVE A FEW INCHES LEFT OR RIGHT TO GET A NEW VIEWPOINT."

clarity: the disappearance of problems

irony?

nothing gets me
feeling religious
like a very 
good
hangover.

things i will do once im rolling in dough:

fix my record player
visit new york
visit new mexico
pay those bills
pay the library
pay for internet
buy so many cds!
get a license to drive
buy a 711
get ___ tattoos
give you some
maybe get drunk
i guess get botox?
get a cat named claude
visit japan
probably get a yacht


understand, and agree.
see things clear
ly.
produce better 
art. be good,
again.

water

is my latest tool for detecting shakes of the earth. it is also great for cleaning, and thirst.

alan on point/apply this to everything:

"philosophical opinions and disputations sound like somewhat sophisticated versions of children yelling back and forth -- "'tis!" "'tis'nt!" "'tis!" "'tis'nt!" -- until (if only philosophers would do likewise) they catch the nonsense of it all and roll over backwards with hoots of laughter."

alan on THE MOMENT:

"the crimes and follies of man's ordinary nightmare life seem neither evil nor stupid but simply pitiable. one has the extraordinarily odd sensation of seeing people in their mean or malicious pursuits looking, at the same time, like gods -- as if they were supremely happy without knowing it."

alan on big pictures:

"ordinarily one might feel that there is a shocking contrast between the marvelous structure of the human organism and its brain, on the one hand, and the uses to which most people put it, on the other. yet there could perhaps be a point of view from which the natural wonder of the organism simply outshines the degrading performances of its superficial consciousness."

early work