The Incompleat Cynic
all the pop psych suggesting we’re better off when we’re happier is effectively trumped by experience. More
"The only thing that makes one an artist is making art. And that requires the precise opposite of hanging out; a deeply lonely and unglamorous task of tolerating oneself long enough to push something out."
– David Rakoff, Half Empty

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More


"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More

"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More