Quote of the Day- 06/13/2011

"Historically, the claim of consensus is the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled."
- Michael Crichton

Quote of the Day- 06/12/2011

"Before all else, be armed."
- Niccolo Machiavelli

Quote of the Day- 06/11/2011

"Not all who wander are lost."
- J.R.R. Tolkein

Quote of the Day- 06/10/2011

"Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."
- The Principal from "Billy Madison"

Faces of the Damned

A tune airy and mischievous plays,

Keeping us dancing all in time,

Whirling and prancing in elegant ways,

Together locked in unison sublime.

But as I spin and step with joy,

A barbed fragment cannot escape my mind.

The whole beauteous scene begins to cloy,

Gorgeous tapestry tearing at its binds.

My gaze is drawn from face to face,

And the disturbing truth is revealed.

Features obscured by masks in their place,

The souls of all left false and concealed.

With herculean effort I break from the line,

Trying to take in the growing horror.

Desperation is blooming and mine,

Like the pain of a forsaken explorer.

Where once was magnificent dance

I now see only endless pantomime,

Infinite hordes locked in trance,

Gleefully enslaved to tune and rhyme.

I am rocked and struck by the crowd,

Caught in the path of a conforming swarm.

Their unwilling ecstasy is insane and loud,

Even as their blood spills fluid and warm.

Quote of the Day- 06/09/2011

"Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual."
- Octavio Paz

Quote of the Day- 06/08/2011

"I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place.  I try to do this as best I can while still protecting my writer self, which more than ever needs privacy."
- Sandra Cisneros

Quote of the Day- 06/07/2011

"Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is."
- Thomas Szasz

Quote of the Day- 06/06/2011

"Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale."
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Quote of the Day- 06/05/2011

"You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover all roads lead down."
- Stanislaw Lem