Some things I learned in October

Here's stuff that has stuck in the sieve of my mind from what I read and heard in October.

words and names I like:
unhelpful

Cosmic dust

Iggy Azalea

When I take pictures I think about nothing.  -- issei Suda
The average teenager has already amassed years of daily, if not hourly communication skills, shared thoughts,
Piney Z bridge, Tallahassee --133-foot, prefabricated box truss, weathering steel bridge, the northern walkway takes visitors 130 feet back down to solid ground.
"Every novelist ought to invent his own technique, that is the fact of the matter." Francois Mauriac
YouTube: place where creative anarchy pursued viral magic." David Carr NYT

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once." F. Neitzsche

Looking old, she said, should be a boast about experiences accrued and insights acquired, a triumphant signal ...

"Just because things aren’t going as planned doesn’t mean they are going poorly."  -- Artist Jesse Reno

"Prose — words in their best order; Poetry — the best words in the best order..." STColeridge

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." And, "I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it" PICASSO

"... if you’re not willing to take big risks and try daring experiments, what is the point? "Dr. Laurie Glimcher

He wanted to astonish Paris with an apple (about Cezanne)

"to define me is to negate me." Kierkegaard

"There is enough of heaven in a hedgerow, and enough of hell in the perfidy of man.” Clive James