“ I lusted with greater faith, hoped with greater abandon.

Michael Chabon in The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

I love that line more than anything right now. I love when a paragraph or a sentence or a phrase sticks out to you while reading a novel, and it refuses to go away, instead nesting comfortably in your mind, ready to be uttered sporadically in your future.

Mind biscuits

For every tree that grows in Brooklyn, a band grows on the Internet; there’s typically a 43 percent chance that the band growing on the Internet also happens to grow in Brooklyn.

Himanshu Suri of Das Racist for The Village Voice

“ Kids are always angry, when they become aware, first of all, of their parents’ shortcomings, and then, however briefly, of society’s shortcomings. But society over the past thirty years has become ever more effective and efficient at telling them to shut up. They are expected to shut up and spend, shut up and watch, shut up and join the workforce,
Luc Sante, “Strength Through Joy,” from the essay collection Kill All Your Darlings