Bart Yates is an American novelist, from Iowa City, Iowa. He also writes under the pen name of Noah Bly.
I once heard some idiot on the radio saying that all great art has suffering as its dominant theme, and that the greatest artists are only able to create because they suffer immensely in their own lives. What a bunch of bullshit. Look at Van Gogh's paintings: there's as much joy in them as there is pain. Suffering is only a single color, and by itself it's boring.
It seems to be that loneliness is a small price to pay for peace and quiet.
Love attacks. It sneaks up like a pride of lions or a pack of hyenas and eats your heart out while you watch. Love is the bully on the playground who takes your lunch money and gives you a black eye in return, the arsonist who burns your house down with you in it, the witch who lures you into her home with candy and boils you alive for dinner. Love is raw, and violent, and instantaneous. You don’t fall in love; you get trampled by it.
Jack Teagarden
Erich Fromm
John Oliver
John Bachman
Tom Berenger
Guy Kawasaki
Karen Russell
Hyman Minsky
Walter Kohn
Nicole Oresme
Carson Grant
Jose Celso Barbosa