Elegy for a Fellow Recluse

"You take a look around your college campus, and the world, and politics, and one season of summer stock, and you listen to the conversation of a bunch of nitwit college students, and you decide that everything's ego, ego, ego, and the only intelligent thing for a girl to do is to lie around and shave her head and say the Jesus prayer and beg God for little mystical experience that'll maker her nice and happy."
- J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

I read Franny and Zooey a few times over in college. I had a bit of Franny in my brain, thinking about poetry, ego, and, of course, boys.

David Mamet: No One Said It Would Be Easy

IT IS NOT YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO KNOW THE ANSWERS, BUT IT IS YOUR, AND MY, RESPONSIBILITY TO KNOW AND TO ASK THE RIGHT Questions OVER AND OVER. UNTIL IT BECOMES SECOND NATURE.

I'm definitely of the school of thought that anything easy isn't worth doing. In my brain it ends up mashed and deluded until it's become: to do something worth doing, you must suffer.