Philip “Baird” Stafford Quotes

These are some quotes from “We, the First Person Singular” being the first and so far the only book of We, the Person by Baird Stafford (c) 1992 by Baird Stafford.

We’ve noticed this about the newly added digits on the end of our Zip Code: the junk mail is all that gets here faster.

We know of know more secure feelng than that which suffuses our being when we have saved our copy a mere ten seconds before the power flickers.

We hadn’t known until they invaded the house that computer monitors can collect as much dust as television screens. The difference is that one works close enogh to th emonitors to see the stuff.

The current advice to desktop publishers, to avoid the “journalistic” look that comes from a packed page without holes, startled us somewhat: we prefer our reading material to reflect information and opinion rather than mere light. We seem to recall that the style which calls for more blank space was begun by editors of popular news and entertainment weeklies, who discovered through opinion polls that the vast majority of the barely literate (the primary audience at which their publicatins are aimed) are frightened by the appearance of too many word on a page.

We are firmly resolved not to let a Realtor® or any other of the vendors who send us such eager offers to sell our home for us, do so. It is possible that we may, one day, discover the necessity to allow one of them to sell our house, and possibly even to find a new one for us to move into—but even under those circumstances, our home will move with us.

We agree with Henry in The Lion in Winter: “My life, when it is written, will read better than it has lived.” We’re just now getting a start on writing it.

The trouble with having a place for everything and everything in it place is that there are so many places where a thing could be.

Times are, when we wish we knew what we were trying to accomplish. Other times are when we wish we didn’t.

No, we don’t quite know where we’re going with our life. We’ll recognize the place when we get there, though, and have all the fun we can along the way.