Books I've Read

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer

"Every moment before this one depends on this one."

"I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can't tell fast enough, the ears that aren't big enough, the eyes that can't take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone."

You Are Here - Thich Nhat Hanh

"The wave can live the life of a wave, but it can also do better. It can live every moment of its life deeply touching its nature of no-birth and no-death...If the wave realizes that it is water, its fear disappears. It enjoys its rising and falling much more. Rising is joyful, and falling is, too."

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

"'Atticus, he was real nice.'

'Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.'"

You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried - Susannah Gora

"...Printed right there, in inconspicuous blue letters positioned just above the poster's photo of geeky Anthony Michael Hall and the dreamy Michael Schoeffling and the soulful Molly Ringwald, is a sentence that no one could have predicted - when it was written over twenty-five years ago - would go on to describe the shared experience of a generation forever changed by the movies of their youth:

'It's the time of your life,' it reads, 'that may last a lifetime.'"

Quinn's Passage - Kazim Ali

"Quinn imagines the ocean in his heart.

But in the body the blood rushes to all the far corners, and then in to its heart.

Where do the waters of the ocean rush back to when they flee from the beach?

The answer is the same as what is 1 divided by 0, he thinks."

The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky

"So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be."

Books I Want to Read

Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

The Feminine Mystique - Betty Friedan

Cien Anos de Soledad - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

People I Find Inspiring

Melanie Moore

Melanie's incredible season 8 SYTYCD audition

Melanie and Robert - Contemporary

Stephen Fry

Mr. Fry's website

"Uppy-Downy, Mood Swingy"

Karl Pilkington

(He's the one with the head like a f---ing orange)

Karl's movie idea, "A Love of Two Brains," made into a trailer

Karl in Egypt

Music I Like

Alt-J (∆)