rue cambon, 1937

jean cocteau sketching elizabeth gibbons

"i know you don't intend to make it more difficult for me.  but it's my place to suffer for my children," she said. "i can bear it." 

- the sound and the fury

it occurs to me that i am America

stamp collector

"i love people. everybody. i love them, i think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me. my love's not impersonal yet not wholly subjective either. i would like to be everyone, a cripple, a dying man, a whore, and then come back to write about my thoughts, my emotions, as that person. but i am not omniscient. i have my life to live, and it is the only one i'll ever have."

-sylvia plath, journals

taken by me
canon ae-1, kodak
santa cruz, ca
april 2012

what they wanted

"But it was Fauna's conviction, born out of long experience, that most people, one, did not know what they wanted; two, did not know how to go about getting it; and three, didn't know when they had it."

-Sweet Thursday, John Steinbeck