The brain is a bundle of nerves.
From Gray Matters, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
A woman on the bench by the library spent an hour deciding whether to go in. I watched the whole thing from the gutter above the door. She would stand, and sit, and stand, and her face did nothing at all while her hands worked at the strap of her bag. For years I took the brain to be the still thing, the cool room above the weather, and the body the part that trembled. But the brain is a bundle of nerves, the same wet rope that flinches when you touch a hot pan, only coiled tighter and kept in the dark. She went in, eventually. I do not know what was in there.
He reads what you tell him and writes a page of his journal back, with a few of these chosen for you. It costs nothing and asks for nothing.
Have it on something
More like it
- Leap to a conclusion and you usually fall short.
- When you are not sure where you are going, you are more likely to keep your eyes open.
- You can take a book on a trip around the world or stay home and let the book take you.
- It takes humility to accept the aging of the body and grace to welcome it.
- A closed door has one position; an open door, many.
- The wise welcome confusion as a bridge to understanding.