I Began To Draw An Invisible Line Between Myself And Other People. No Matter Who I Was Dealing With.

Al pacino playboy interview 1979

"I was at the oscars once in the third or fourth row with Diane Keaton. I was a little high. I had to pee - Bad. I was popping Valium like candy. I was praying, 'please don't let it be me, please.'"

“I never tried to be anything other than a dreamer. I never paid any attention to people who told me to go out and live. I belonged always to whatever was far from me and to whatever I could never be. Anything that was not mine, however base, always seemed to be full of poetry. I only ever desired what was beyond my imaginings.”

— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

you and nature share the same kind of beauty

“Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power — not because they don’t see it, but because they see it and they don’t want it to exist.”

— bell hooks

Edvard Munch, Summer Night By the Beach

Ocean Vuong, “A Letter to my Mother that She Will Never Read” The New Yorker, May 2017 

“Never judge people by their past. People learn. People change. People move on.”

— Unknown

Kim Addonizio, from “Tell Me”, Tell Me

not to get all sad for no reason but something nobody tells you about growing up is that a part of you is just a little girl who is yelling ‘please like me please love me please tell me i am good’ at everyone you meet and most of your day is just trying to ignore her