What Pete Reads

"Ladies and Gentlemen, I stand before you now because I never stopped dawdling like an eight-year-old on a spring morning on his way to school. Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn. I am a very happy man. Thank you. (Nobel Prize acceptance speech)"
- Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

Anonymous asked: Sometimes, I still need you.

Sometimes, I still need you too.

We respect tradition and we revere many traditional flavor profiles, but we do not subscribe to the idea that there’s one set of blueprints that everyone should follow. I think that in the questioning of basic assumptions - about how we cook and why we cook with what we do - is when a lot of the coolest cooking happens.

—David Chang

I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds-but I think of you always in those intervals.

—The People of Paper (Salvador Plascencia)

“Missing you is worse than Pittsburgh.” The People of Paper (Salvador Plascencia)

“Missing you is worse than Pittsburgh.” The People of Paper (Salvador Plascencia)

No need to rise against the solar system when you have plenty of crops and a beautiful wife.

—The People of Paper (Salvador Plascencia)

She had heard that Los Angeles was the last refuge for those who had lost their civilization and were afraid of the rain.

—The People of Paper (Salvador Plascencia)

Federico de la Fe put his hand in the embers until it hurt so much that he could not feel his sadness and instead smelled only his singed flesh.

—The People of Paper (Salvador Plascencia)

He bought a folding table and moved from streetcorner to streetcorner, laying out his paper hearts and kidneys and yards of capillaries.

—The People of Paper (Salvador Plascencia)

The People of Paper (Salvador Plascencia)

The People of Paper (Salvador Plascencia)

If you want to know why so many girls want to be with me, it is because I am a very premium person to be with.

—Everything Is Illuminated (Jonathan Safran Foer)

We are dissatisfied, but we are cowards.

—Aurora’s Motive (Erich Hackl)

Criticized by his companions for a lack of patriotism, he countered that all the truly great men of history, regardless of origin, had always placed freedom above petty national disputes.

—Aurora’s Motive (Erich Hackl)

Guntram Vesper

Guntram Vesper

I find it helpful to have lots of words passing before my eyes as much as possible when I am trying to write, because the one word I feel I need the most might just be somewhere in the stream, though I might have to chop part of it away or twist it a little or elongate it affixationally.

—Gary Lutz

For all I know, the age of the comma is over. But it was a beautiful time to be alive and to be fingering words.

—Gary Lutz