LIFE:

  • "All the years and places of his brief broken life came within mind's reach and made a whole again. He knew once more, at last, after this long, bitter, wasted time, who he was and where he was."
    --Ursula K. LeGuin, "A Wizard of Earthsea"

  • "Wherever you go, there you are."--my coffee cup.

  • "I always knew I'd look back at the times I cried and laugh, but I never knew I'd look back at the times I laughed and cry." --unknown

  • "And now and then it occurs to me
    What a long, strange trip it's been . . .!"
    --Jerry Garcia (just kind of sums it all up, doesn't it?)

  • "And the only thing I knew how to do
    Was to keep on keepin' on . . ."
    --Bob Dylan, 'Tangled Up and Blue'

  • "Somewhere on a desert highway
    She rides a Harley Davidson
    Her long blonde hair flying in the wind
    She's been running half her life
    The chrome and steel she rides
    Colliding with the very air she breathes . . . "
    --some awesome lyrics from Neil Young, 'Unknown Legend.'

  • "Fate is like chocolate chip cookies--always better if you make your own!"
    --Hag the Invincible, feeling much more manic that day.

  • "I've tried therapy and LSD
    Been lost but now I'm found
    Cause it's music, sex and cookies
    That make my world go 'round . . . "
    --from the song 'Music Sex and Cookies,' by George Uetz
    (sounds great performed by a tentful of drunken Anachronists, though . . .).

  • "Shared pain is lessened, shared joy increased."--Mike Callahan

  • "Emptiness does not require the abscence of all things; it requires only the abscence of that which is most needed or desired, that which is most central to one's existence."
    --James Howe, 'A Night Without Stars.'

  • "Well all I can say is that if life made sense it wouldn't be as much fun."--Stoney (the evil reincarnation of the late Jukebox Hero).

  • "I want to sound my barbaric YAWP!! from the rooftops of the world"--Walt Whitman, probably 'Song Of Myself'

  • Hag Sez: "I plan to die young or live forever--fuck the middle ground!!"

  • "I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it."--Robert Cohn, in Hemingway's 'The Sun Also Rises.'

  • "The only thing in life that is sure is the fact that the instant you lean on something, it disappears."--Hag the Semi-Quasi-Invincible

  • "I sure hope life isn't a big joke . . . 'cause I don't get it."--Jack Handey, 'Deep Thoughts.'

  • "Mama, mama many worlds I've known
    Since I first left home . . . "--Jerry Garcia again.

  • "Sometimes I wonder why I feel so all alone
    Why I'm a stranger in my own life"--Sheryl Crow

  • "Life is not a court case; you don't get paid for 'pain and suffering'!!"--me, in a really foul mood.

  • "If I had a life, I'd hate it!"--Rizzo the Rat

  • "Pride is the ladder from which the mighty fall."--an anonymous
    Staubian English Lit student, circa 1995

  • "Tired of screwin' up
    Tired of goin' down
    Tired of myself
    Tired of this town . . . "
    --a damn good summary of life, from the immortal Tom Petty, "Mary Jane's Last Dance."

  • Stacey:"Jessi, we're all gonna DIE!!!!!!"
    Jessi: "Best news I've heard all day!!!"

  • "I don't know but I've been told
    You never slow down, you never grow old."
    --Tom Petty again, same song.

  • "It's the heart afraid of breaking
    That never learns to dance
    It's the dream afraid of waking
    That never takes a chance . . ."
    --from 'The Rose,' written by Amanda McBroom, performed by darn near everybody.

  • "He had the look, it would be said later, of one made wise against his will."--Jeff Grubb, in a story called 'Fools Gold,' in the anthology 'Dragons of Krynn.'

  • "Healing scar tissue always itches--even when it's on your heart."--another Hag-quote.

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