Category: how to win the lottery

“no one knows themselves. who are you? you don’t know. then you come to the zone of interest, and it tells you who you are.”

we’re going to the movies. and also not.

“a policeman was a policeman. it was always best to ignore them unless they bothered you.”

“all knowledge that’s worth anything is maybe paid for by blood. maybe that’s the only way you can tell that a certain piece of knowledge is worth anything – it has cost some blood.”

“the fact is i am quite happy in a movie, even a bad movie. other people, so i have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives: the time one climbed the parthenon at sunrise, the summer night one met a lonely girl in central park and achieved with her a sweet and natural relationship, as they say in books. i too once met a girl in central park, but it is not much to remember. what i remember is the time john wayne killed three men with a carbine as he was falling to the dusty street in stagecoach, and the time the kitten found orson welles in the doorway in the third man.”

suck shit, sufjan stevens. (#1)