"If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today."
-Lou Holtz
Friday, April 15, 2011
Thursday, April 14, 2011
You're So Vain
"Yes, I will try to be. Because I believe that not being is arrogant."
-Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
-Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
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