Kyle Pickering

“You have your fear that might become reality, and you have Godzilla… which is reality.”
― Brian Matthew Clutter, Titans of Toho: An Unauthorized Guide to the Godzilla Series and the Rest of Toho’s Giant Monster Film Library

“Godzilla lovers to this day still wonder precisely what attracts them. Part of the appeal is the surprising sophistication in what seems at first glance to be simple-minded Saturday matinee fare. In the wreckage left in the wake of this awesome beast lies the tattered remains of human hubris, a moral lesson left smoldering in the ruins. As series producer Tomoyuki Tanaka put it, “As long as the arrogance of human beings exists, Godzilla will survive.”
― David Kalat, A Critical History and Filmography of Toho's Godzilla Series

“One weekend it rained for 48 hours without stopping. The rain beat like bony fingers against the window panes. Tap. Tap. Tap. Tap. Tap. Fungus was growing on the walls. I polished off a bottle of gin sitting huddled over the two-bar electric fire and wrote a poem, one of the few that has lasted through the moves and the years. It is called 'Where Can I Go?'
If this is not the place where tears are understood where do I go to cry?
If this is not the place where my spirits can take wing where do I go to fly?
If this is not the place where my feelings can be heard where do I go to speak?
If this is not the place where you’ll accept me as I am where can I go to be me?
If this is not the place where I can try and learn and grow where can I go to laugh and cry?”
― Alice Jamieson, Today I'm Alice: Nine Personalities, One Tortured Mind

“64. I am the blue-lidded daughter of Sunset; I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky.”
― Aleister Crowley, The Book of the Law