If men got pregnant, there would be safe, reliable methods of birth control. They'd be inexpensive, too. - Anna Quindlen

It's only before realities set in that we can treasure our delusions.

Downtime is where we become ourselves, looking into the middle distance, kicking at the curb, lying on the grass or sitting on the stoop and staring at the tedious blue of the summer sky. I don’t believe you can write poetry, or compose music, or become an actor without downtime, and plenty of it, a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel creativity.

There's something undeniable about the posture of a person trying not to acknowledge your existance