She [Merry] watched in silence, as still as the monk at the center of the flames, and afterward she would say nothing; even if he spoke to her, questioned her, she just sat transfixed before that set for minutes on end, her gaze focused somewhere else than on the flickering screen, focused inward — inward where the coherence and the certainty were supposed to be, where everything she did not know was initiating a gigantic upheaval, where nothing that registered would ever fade away….
— Philip Roth, American Pastoral

Reminds you a little bit of Sally in front of the burning monk on television, right?

• footnote - by Natasha Simons
I’m working on my five year plan, I just need to choose a font.
— Chuck Bartowski
A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are.
— Alain de Botton, in his TED Talk about the philosophy of success
I like having paint on my hands. It lends the illusion that I have an honest career.
— Hugh Dancy - BlackBook
Remember back in the days before the Internet when we didn’t really understand the level of illiteracy in this country?
— A comment on Lamebook.com
via seagull.
(914): I just tried to unlock my house with the car remote
texts from last night

Yeah I actually did that yesterday.
People don’t want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.
— Chuck Palahniuk (via toholdit) (via jakelodwick)
If you can beat Nadal on clay in Paris then you can beat anybody
Sometimes growing up, it can get you down.
— “It’s Okay” by Land of Talk
I would open the door with my face for Megan Fox.
— TMZ guy after seeing photos of Megan Fox with Shia LaBeouf, who did not open the door for her because of his bum hand