Quote of the Day

To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.

–DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN

Quote of the Day

I prayed for the city to be cleared of people, for the gift of being alone… which is the one New York prayer that rarely gets lost or delayed in channels, and in no time at all everything I touched turned to solid loneliness.

–from J.D. SALINGER’S “De Daumier-Smith’s Blue Period”

Quote of the Day

It’s a matter of my choosing to do the work of somehow altering or getting free of my natural, hard-wired default setting which is to be deeply and literally self-centered and to see and interpret everything through this lens of self … The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day.

–DAVID FOSTER WALLACE