pear personal sphere

'If you want to really hurt your parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay,
the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living.
They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well
or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can.
You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.'

'But there's a reason we recognize Hamlet as a masterpiece: it's that Shakespeare told us the
truth, and people so rarely tell us the truth in this rise and fall here. The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.'

--kurt vonnegut--