Which came first, summer or the pop song? The two are indelibly linked. When God tilted the axis of this Earth and sent our planet forth on its journey round the sun, He cued up His Summer Songs mixtape on the Holy Walkman - God being rather Old School when it comes...

There is one thing I can say for certain: the older a person gets, the lonelier he becomes. In a sense our lives are nothing more than a series of stages to help us get used to loneliness... If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets. -- Haruki...

Music exists only in the moment of its performance. Music always expresses the immediate in its immediacy. Music, like time, is measured but immeasurable, is composed but indivisible. -- Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time. --...

We are going to the moon; that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself. -- Anaïs Nin From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million...

I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul; witticisms streamed from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me, but I went away -- and wanted to shoot myself... The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as...

Dear Eli, I’m in the middle of the ocean. I haven’t left my room in four days. I’ve never been more lonely in my life, and I think I’m in love with Margot... For the past year he had been traveling alone on an ocean liner called the Cote d’Ivoire and had seen both...

Etiolation is a process in flowering plants grown in partial or complete absence of light. It is characterized by long, weak stems; smaller leaves due to longer internodes; and a pale yellow color. -- Wikipedia When in the dark night of suffering sagacity cannot see a...

The world continues, and it continues because it is a repetition... If one does not have the category of recollection or of repetition, all life dissolves into an empty, meaningless noise. -- Søren Kierkegaard Kierkegaard contended that repetition - running the same...