KEEP MOVING.

“We can’t just stop. We’re not rocks–progress, migration, motion is... modernity. It’s ANIMATE, it’s what living things do. We desire. Even if all we desire is stillness, it’s still desire for...”

~Tony Kushner, playwright~

character of Prior. Angels in America: Perestroika, 1994, p. 132. Broadway play starring Stephen Spinella; 2003 movie starring Justin Kirk

Kushner is a Pulitzer Prize, Tony, and Emmy winner



“I just have this absurd determination to live, don’t you?”

~And the Band Played On, movie~

Donal Logue as Bobbi, 1993 movie about the AIDS crisis. Written by Arnold Shulman, based on the 1987 book by Randy Shilts



“There is no stasis. To stand still is to fall away from the truth; the inner light dims and flickers, starts to go out, as soon as one tries to hold fast.”

~Susan Sontag, writer~

1960 journal, reprinted in New York Times Magazine, 9-10-06, p. 55. To be published in 2008



“A river must keep moving so as not to become stagnant; it must have rocks in its bed for its song.”

~Lisa Kasamoto, writer~

1999, Passion in My Pocket, memoir in progress



“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”

~Will Rogers, humorist~

New Beginnings quote book, 1993 by Running Press