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New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment...
a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.

- Brendan Behan, playwright and author

Realized that everything really does happen in Manhattan.

- Rufus Wainwright, singer/songwriter in "11:11"

I heard a voice the other night. It turned out to be God. It went: "Ochs, wake up, this is God speaking - over". I said: "You're putting me on of course, Dylan!"

- Phil Ochs's intro to The Cannons Of Christianity

After a cup of tea (two spoonsful for each cup, and don’t let it stand more than three
minutes), it says to the brain, “Now, rise, and show your strength. Be eloquent, and
deep, and tender; see, with a clear eye, into Nature and into life; spread your white
wings of quivering thought, and soar, a god-like spirit, over the whirling world beneath
you, up through long lanes of flaming stars to the gates of eternity!

- Jerome K. Jerome, author

In a bad mood I think I've failed at everything, and at other times I think
I'm the most magnificently talented person – it's surely only a matter of time
before there's a huge bronze statue of me in Trafalgar Square!

- Tom Hollander, actor

This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,—
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.

- from Richard II, Act II, Scene 1.


obasc is where it's at, yo.



A nice cup of tea is my crack cocaine.