On the whole, I talk to no one. I concentrate on the way the light would strike filled Mason jars on a kitchen windowsill. I lie here in the sunlight, watch the hummingbird.

∆ Joan Didion, from Play It As It Lays

"The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable."

-- Robert Henri

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

-Simone Weil