To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.
BEG, v. To ask for something with an earnestness proportioned to the belief that it will not be given.
Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.
You wait for nothing if not for the word that will burst from the deep like a fruit among branches.
But you, you foolish girl, you have gone home to a leaky castle across the sea to lie awake in linen smelling of lavender, and hear the nightingale, and long for me.
The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.
When it works, anticipation is far more fulfilling than surprise, because we are reminded that a sunrise is precisely as magnificent as it is inevitable.
I feel like I haven't started yet. I'm looking forward to the ninth album, the thirtieth movie.
Perhaps no other year before or since 1984 has been awaited with such eager anticipation.
