
“Do you do those secret farts at the supermarket. Quickly piss off to another aisle.”
Carl Barron Live (2003)
“Do you do those secret farts at the supermarket. Quickly piss off to another aisle.”
Carl Barron Live (2003)
2005-09, Address at Stanford University (2005)
Context: When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and Polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions. Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.” It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
From an essay in The New York Times (“Blizzard of Lies”) http://archive.is/TgeI published 8 January 1996
Letter to H. R. Haldeman
“Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met.”
“Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.”
Source: The Young Visiters (1919), Chapter 12