Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

E. E. Cummings (via girlwithoutwings)

(Source: quote-book)

I never drank or did drugs myself; honestly, I sort of looked down at those people. You’ve got a good life and you purposefully set out to mess it up…I never got that. Maybe I just never understood the point, the way other people seemed to. Some people understood the point so well, they made it a personal credo, the law of their independent nation, but it just seemed stupid to me; and maybe even weak. Like the world was just too big and bright and real for you, and you just couldn’t take it.

The Secret Life of Prince Charming, Deb Caletti

Ira Glass on Storytelling

(Source: alisonagosti, via molls)

this made me smile! 

Directionless and tamed helots of a machine-minding class…. The argument against modern mass entertainments is not that they debase taste- but that they overexcite it, eventually dull it and finally kill it.

Richard Hoggart. 

this applied back when Hoggart was writing, and applies even more today. 

If it is the crime of popular culture that it has taken our dreams and packaged them and sold them back to us, it is also the achievement of popular culture that is has brought us more and more varied dreams than we could otherwise ever have known.

Richard Maltby

(via chrislilley)

more cassavettes. inspired at 12am. can’t wait to wake up and go to work.. 

one of my favorite directors on life and love. 



(Source: kindafabulous)