After Season Four [when Gandolfini and HBO had a pay dispute and filming was delayed], Jim called all the regulars into his trailer and gave us $33,333 each, every single one of us. Now, there were a lot of big actors—Kelsey Grammer, Ray Romano—and they’re all nice guys, I’m sure, but nobody gave their cast members that kind of money. That’s like buying everybody an S.U.V. He said, “Thanks for sticking by me.”
- Steven Schirripa, The Family Hour: An Oral History of The Sopranos
It was love, she thought, pretending to move her canvas, distilled and filtered; love that never attempted to clutch it’s object; but, like the love which mathematicians bear their symbols, or poets their phrases, was meant to be spread over the world and become part of the human gain.
- Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse
Marissa Nadler - Rosary
April is lonely
The rosary
That I wear on my neck
Stare out to sea
Gulls overhead
Bird in a tree
I feel numb and cold, rosary
Numb, cold, and free, rosary
Rosary
Today the most civilized countries of the world spend a maximum of their income on war and a minimum on education. The twenty-first century will reverse this order. It will be more glorious to fight against ignorance than to die on the field of battle.
- Nikola Tesla in 1935
If you think there are no Slaves in Pennsylvania, why, look again. They are not all African, nor do some of them even yet know,— may never know,— that they are Slaves. Slavery is very old upon these shores,— there is Innocence upon the Practice anywhere, neither among the Indians nor the Spanish nor in the behavior of the rest of Christendom, if it comes to that.
- Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon
We are blind as to Time,— for we could not bear to contemplate what lies at its heart.
- Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon
The real problem with rape is that everybody believes it to be an existential one. It’s not.
