A story is not like a road to follow...it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors relate to each other, how the world outside is altered by being viewed from these windows. And you, the visitor, the reader, are altered as well by being in this enclosed space, whether it is ample and easy or full of crooked turns, or sparsely or opulently furnished. You can go back again and again, and the house, the story, always contains more than you saw the last time. It also has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or beguile you.

-- Alice Munro, Introduction to Selected Stories

You don't wait for anything. This is not the dress rehearsal; this is it.

-- Parenthood, "It Has To Be Now"

That feeling of not being authentic, of having something to prove: use it.

-- Smash, "Tech"

Well, sometimes dreams are hard.

-- Smash, "Pilot"

Beautiful.

Going to see the NYC ballet is definitely on my bucket list.

So the holy truth of the whole adventure here in India is in one line: God dwells within you, as you. God's not interested in watching a performance of how a spiritual person looks and behaves, the quiet girl who glides silently through the place with a gentle, ethereal smile. Who is that person? It's Ingrid Bergman in The Bells of St Mary's, not me. God dwells within me, as me.

-- Eat Pray Love

Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things that speak directly to your soul.

-- Austin Kleon