Quote for the day

"We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call, no way out; just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it."
Tennessee Willams, quoted in Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates by Tom Robbins

"In a certain sense, the playwright was correct. But, oh! What a view from that upstairs window!"
"What Tennessee failed to mention was that if we look out of that window with an itchy curiosity and a passionate eye; with a generous spirit and a capacity for delight; and, yes, the language with which to support and enrich the things we see; then it doesn't matter that the house is burning down around us. It doesn't matter. Let the motherfucker blaze!"
from Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates by Tom Robbins

Could not have said it better, either thought, myself...