Random Quotations

"I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous." - Graffiti

"Interpretations of interpretations interpreted." - James Joyce

"Who ever said pleasure wasn't functional?" - Charles Eames

". . .qualities like quiveriness and vulnerability come to mind when I think of creativity. . ." - Douglas Hofstadter

"One albino doesn't a summer make." - Surrealist proverb

"We are all a product of the choices we make." - Albert Camus

"My mother says she's cold and then she makes me put on a coat." - Colin aged 7

"A grapefruit is a lemon that had a chance and took advantage of it." - Oscar Wilde

"We are floating in a medium of vast extent, always drifting uncertainly, blown to and fro; whenever we think we have a fixed point to which we can cling and make fast, it shifts and leaves us behind; if we follow it, it eludes our grasp, slips away, and flees eternally before us. This is our natural state and yet the state most contrary to our inclinations. We burn with desire to find firm footing, an ultimate, lasting base on which to build a tower rising up to infinity, but our whole foundation cracks and the earth opens." - Virginia Woolf

The Children's Hospital

". . .and she was twenty-one years tired. . ." (p.9)

"It was only six o'clock but she was ten p.m. drunk." (p.10)

"I am sending you to Jesus, I told her. But I remember the moment perfectly, and I know I was not trying to kill her because I thought it would make her happy." (p.24)

". . .a personal apogee of pleasantness." (p.205)

"When I was in college I had a recurring dream that I was Sylvia Plath's pony." (p.284)

Chris Adrian, The Children's Hospital