Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman at the Vanity Fair Oscar party, Morton’s, West Hollywood, March 2000 photographed by Jonathan Becker
“I want to pretend there’s such a thing as requited love. As the endurance of love.”
― Lorrie Moore, Anagrams
“He had to have her, he definitely had to have her. She was not merely the latest object on which his greedy desire to be saved had fixed itself; no, she was the woman who was going to save him. The woman whose fine intelligence and deep sympathy and divine body, yes, whose divine body would successfully deflect his attention from the gloomy well shaft of his feelings and the contemplation of his past.”
—Edward St. Aubyn, Bad News
“Loneliness is like starvation: you don’t realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.”
— Joyce Carol Oates, Faithless

Every time this ridiculous pretty face starts babbling about methane and alternative energies, I get so happy I could spit.
Dopey summer TV rules.








