Quotations
"A beautiful girl can make you dizzy, like you’ve been drinkin’ Jack and Coke all morning. She can make you feel high: full of the single greatest commodity known to man, promise. Promise of a better day. Promise of a greater hope. Promise of a new tomorrow. This particular aura can be found in the gait of a beautiful girl. In her smile, and in her soul, and the way she makes every rotten little thing about life seem like it’s gonna be okay. The supermodels, Willy? That’s all they are. Bottled promise. Scenes from a brand new day. Hope dancing in stiletto heels. … A beautiful girl is all-powerful and that is as good as love. That’s as good as love."
"Who owns Cross Creek? The red-birds, I think, more than I, for they will have their nests even in the face of delinquent mortgages..It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed, but not bought. It may be used, but not owned. It gives itself in response to love and tending, offers its seasonal flowering and fruiting. But we are tenants and not possessors, lovers, and not masters. Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to time."
"After dinner, Marcel Duchamp would take the bus to play at a chess circle and return late with Lydie, his first wife lying awake waiting for him. Even so, he did not go up to bed immediately, but set up the chess pieces to study the position of a game he had been playing. First thing in the morning when he arose, he went to the chessboard to make a move he had thought during the night. But the piece could not be moved. During the night Lydie has arisen and glued down all the pieces . . . a few days later, Duchamp and Lydie divorced, and he returned to the states."