Melville House Bookstore

"I would prefer not to."

--Bartleby, the Scrivener

Muir Beach

"You peel off the year as one might a cabbage."

-Call It Sleep

Ocean Beach | San Francisco

"To rest in the arms of perfection is what all those who struggle for excellence long to do, and is the void not a form of perfection?"

-Death in Venice

Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Fountain | San Francisco

"When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism and militarism are incapable of being conquered." -MLK Jr.

Dried Roses | Still Life

"Not by doing but by not doing
I have lost the sight of the high sun you long for
which when it was too late was known to me."

Purgatorio, 7