The Paradox of Reality
The towering paradox that religion confronts us with is its insistence that the opposites that texture the world we normally experience are, when rightly understood, actually one.
—Huston Smith, Buddhism: A Concise Introduction
New Wave Hero
That is the ultimate message of New Wave: if you just amass the courage that is necessary, you can completely reinvent yourself. You can be your own hero.
—Richard Hell
as quoted in The Nomi Song
Reality
Right now, human beings as a mass, have a gruesome appetite for what they call ‘real,’ whether it’s Reality TV or the kind of plodding fiction that only works as low-grade documentary, or at the better end, the factual programmes and biographies and ‘true life’ accounts that occupy the space where imagination used to sit.
Such a phenomenon points to a terror of the inner life, of the sublime, of the poetic, of the non-material, of the contemplative.
Weight, Jeannette Winterson
Autobiography is not important
Autobiography is not important. Authenticity is important. The writer must fire herself through the text, be the molten stuff that welds together disparate elements. I believe there is always exposure, vulnerability, in the writing process, which is not to say it is either confessional or memoir. It is real.
Weight, Jeanette Winterson
The Strength of a Tree
The strength of a tree, the old ones say, comes not from growing thicker in the good years when there is water, but from staying alive in the bad, dry times.
— Joseph M. Marshall III, The Journey of Crazy Horse
Musings & Meditations 
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