The Poet's Notebook

"Will the computer ever replace the fetishism of the notebook? It's possible, but I doubt it. To hear the poets tell it, the small, handsome notebook and a special pen or pencil are half the work. They are an invitation to write in a certain way. They demand from us absolute conciseness, an aesthetic of modesty. If you write poems on the back of old envelopes and garage sale announcements, as I often do, you don't write epics."

Preface of The Poet's Notebook (xi, 1995)
Charles Simic

Conan O'brien

"Homer Simpson wears tighty whities. There's something almost emasculating about them."

Conan O'Brien
July 18, 2011
"Death Gets a Paper Cut"

Love Actually

Sam: Worse than the total agony of being in love?

[Written by: Richard Curtis]

Up in the Air

"I type with purpose."
-Natalie Keener

(Written by: Walter Kim, Jason Reitman, and Sheldon Turner)

My Ex-Gay Friend

Ben went on. “To me, Michael is a victim of this insane society we live in, where we grow up with all these conflicting messages and pressures around sexuality and religion, and where we divide into these camps where we’re always right and the other side is always wrong. Some people are susceptible to buying into that, and I think Michael is one of them.”

-BENOIT DENIZET-LEWIS
Published: June 16, 2011, NYTimes

The Romantics

“…scattered with nights so fun they explain the evolutionary purpose of talking.”

-Laura Rosen
Written by: Galt Niederhoffer

Meaning

Restless hearts you take a punch, just to land one.
Troubled minds, it's only fair after all.
Mountin' the trail, but you got it in sight.
Sometimes our only way is jumping.
I hope your not afraid of heights.

-Gavin deGraw