My Watch Is Exactly Two Days Slow.

I like to hyperbolize springtime, even before it arrives. But all that embellished anticipation never disappoints. The trees turn pink, we suddenly can't find our jackets, and the deep end of this chaotic city is now an unrestricted area. I recently decided not to wade on over, but dive right in. To start making money again, to take risks in love, to demolish so many follies I'd created mid-winter. I'm even writing my book again, and this time I know why I'm writing it in the first place. More on all these adventures and misadventures soon, but in the meantime, a nostalgic quote-plus-photo post.

I may or may not be appearing in a groundbreaking documentary, shot in the very best of mumblecore style. Above is a still from my five-hour interview.

"Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it–don't cheat with it."
~Hemingway

"It's not men who limit women. What limits people is lack of character. What limits people is that they don't have the fucking nerve or imagination to star in their own movie, let alone direct it."
~Tom Robbins

"Where's your will to be weird?"
~Jim Morrison

"The Edge...there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."
~Hunter S. Thompson

This is a photo of my mother around my age. I recently interviewed her on camera and asked her what was going on in her life, in her head, in this photo, at the time. She kept trying to explain it all to me, but in the end, told me it didn't matter. She was now here, and all that was now there.

"I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't."

~F. Scott Fitzgerald