Journeys of Why

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”

Salem, Oregon, USA

"A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer." ~Karl Kraus

“Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader—not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.” ~ E.L. Doctorow

"The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new." ~Samuel Johnson

Enduring Love (McEwan); Nausée (Sartre); La Chute (Camus); Soul of Iran (Molavi); Johnny Got His Gun (Trumbo), Free Fall (Golding); Kiss Me, Judas (Baer); Notes from Underground (Dostoevsky).

“A book should serve as an axe for the frozen sea within us.” ~ Franz Kafka

Super Size Me Bowling for Columbine Sicko Escape to Canada

"Your writing must prove to me that it desires me." ~ Roland Barthes

Summer 10: Montreal

"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say." ~Anaïs Nin

Sana'a Valletta Montreal Hong Kong Singapore Tunis Tbilisi Yerewan Buenos Aires Baku Dublin Cardiff Edinburgh Toulouse Lisbon Athens Istanbul Kathmandu Isfahan Shiraz Herat Kabul Seoul

“Deliver me from Swedish furniture. Deliver me from clever art... ...May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.” ~Chuck Palahniuk