The Mountaintop

We peer so suspiciously at each other
that we cannot see that we Canadians are standing on
the mountaintop of human wealth, freedom and privilege.

– Pierre Elliot Trudeau –

Agreement

Truth is Bliss

– Robert Lepage –

Life As Our Lab

Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.

– David Cronenberg –

Words about Words

"Truth, at the wrong time, can be dangerous."

"I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure."

"It's why you create characters: so you can argue with yourself."

"It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not."

– Michael Ondaatje –

A Case Of You

Just before our love got lost you said
"i am as constant as a northern star"
And I said, "constant in the darkness
Where’s that at?
If you want me I’ll be in the bar"

On the back of a cartoon coaster
In the blue tv screen light
I drew a map of canada
Oh canada
And your face sketched on it twice

Oh you are in my blood like holy wine
Oh and you taste so bitter but you taste so sweet
Oh I could drink a case of you
I could drink a case of you darling
And I would still be on my feet
Oh I’d still be on my feet

Oh I am a lonely painter
I live in a box of paints
I’m frightened by the devil
And I’m drawn to those ones that ain’t afraid
I remember that time that you told me, you said
"love is touching souls"
Surely you touched mine
"cause part of you pours out of me
In these lines from time to time

Oh you are in my blood like holy wine
And you taste so bitter but you taste so sweet
Oh I could drink a case of you
I could drink a case of you darling
Still I’d be on my feet
And still be on my feet

I met a woman
She had a mouth like yours
She knew your life
She knew your devils and your deeds
And she said
Color "go to him, stay with him if you can
Oh but be prepared to bleed"
Oh but you are in my blood you’re my holy wine
Oh and you taste so bitter, bitter and so sweet
Oh I could drink a case of you darling
Still I’d be on my feet
I’d still be on my feet

Mmmmmmm

-Joni Mitchell (Blue)

William Hutt: (1920 to 2007)

"Never speak unless it improves on silence;

Never move unless it improves on stillness."

(William Hutt)

New York Prep #3: Walt Whitman

"The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him
as affectionately as he has absorbed it"

- Walt Whitman -