Ginger Magnum

I CAME TO A POINT WHERE I NEEDED SOLITUDE AND JUST STOP THE MACHINE OF ‘THINKING’ AND ‘ENJOYING’ WHAT THEY CALL ‘LIVING’, I JUST WANTED TO LIE IN THE GRASS AND LOOK AT THE CLOUDS. JACK KEROUAC 

WHENEVER TWO PEOPLE MEET, THERE ARE REALLY SIX PEOPLE PRESENT. THERE IS EACH MAN AS HE SEES HIMSELF, EACH MAN AS THE OTHER PERSON SEES HIM, AND EACH MAN AS HE REALLY IS.” -WILLIAM JAMES

"Did you see that Disney film in elementary school -The Living Desert? "Yes," I answered. ... Our world's exactly the same. Rainfalls and the flowers bloom. No rain, they wither up. Bugs are eaten by lizards, lizards are eaten by birds. But in the end, every one of them dies. They die and dry up. One generation dies, and the next one takes over. That's how it goes. Lots of different ways to live. And lots of different ways to die. But in the end that doesn't make a bit of difference.   All that remains is a desert." HARUKI MURAKAMI - South of the Border, West of the Sun

“ Some women let you kiss them while some kissed you back— but just. Others kissed with enthusiasm, but it was with the same kind of enthusiasm they felt for a good meal, a Bette Davis film, or a lovely present they’d just been given. But she was different. She was hungry for you, hungry to kiss you, to hear what you had to say; hungry to tell you what was on her mind. To his mind, this overall hunger was what defined her. It was the greatest compliment he had ever received from a woman and he never grew tired of it.   —  JONATHAN CARROLL   ( FROM THE NEW BOOK)