“If you ever have children, tell them they must always be drunk. Drunk on love, drunk on poetry, drunk on wine, it doesn’t matter. This world is too goddamn painful to waste a second of your existence sober.” — Benjamin Hale Copy Share Image
“It seems to me there are two things humans like to pretend simply do not happen--two things, two inescapable actions in life, one of which is a daily concern, and the other, come to think of it, is also a… — Benjamin Hale Copy Share Image
“If you ever have children, tell them they must always be drunk. Drunk on love, drunk on poetry, drunk on wine, it doesn’t matter.… — Benjamin Hale Copy Share Image
“In paradise there is nothing to say. Eden was sacrificed not for the pleasure of a fruit, but for the pleasure of the word.… — Benjamin Hale Copy Share Image
“It is a notably obscene crime of our language that educate is not an intransitive verb.” — Benjamin Hale Copy Share Image
“...we, and I mean humans, are meaning makers. We do not discover the meanings of mysterious things, we invent them. We make meanings because… — Benjamin Hale Copy Share Image
“Some cities are like joyful little children, they live for their summers, and other cities have personalities more like curmudgeonly old men who live… — Benjamin Hale Copy Share Image
“It seems to me there are two things humans like to pretend simply do not happen--two things, two inescapable actions in life, one of… — Benjamin Hale Copy Share Image
