“In paradise there is nothing to say. Eden was sacrificed not for the pleasure of a fruit, but for the pleasure of the word. Now we have shame and pain and knowledge of death and whatnot, but at least we… — 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
