Sublime

Tutto questo corrisponde proprio a quanto stiamo affermando: la paternità è un fatto psicologico e culturale; la generazione fisica, a differenza della maternità, non basta ad assicurarla.

Gary Shteyngart’s The Russian Debutante’s Handbook

All these thoughts, all these ideas, coalesced into what may have been our most consistent record since Things Fall Apart. It was so unified in its message, in fact, that one of the songs we thought would be the lead single, a track called “Birthday Girl” with Patrick Stump as a guest vocalist, had to be taken off the record. It was a topical song,

Whatever was not problematical and suspected about this young man – for example, a certain showiness as to foreign ideas, and a disposition to unsettle what had been settled and forgotten by his elders – was positively unwelcome to a physician whose standing had been fixed thirty years before by a treatise on Meningitis, of which at least one copy

Philip Seymour Hoffman