A moment of something between acceptance and resignation of one's smallness in the world.

And the words we find are always insufficient, like love, though they are often lovely and all we have.

Although I know it's unfair, I reveal myself one mask at a time.

There are always the simple events of your life that you might try to convert into legend.

Better to be furious at one thing, become radiant with purpose. Better to love links and rhythms than all-embracing answers.

I will try to disappoint you better than anyone ever has.

I’ll always deny that I kissed her. I was just whispering into her mouth.

Oh abstractions are just abstract until they have an ache in them.

exaggerated sunsets / splashed with rain, odd collisions / of roots, animals, seeds. / I didn't like a thing I saw, / so much effort to be strange.

I make myself up from everything I am, or could be. For many years I was more desire than fact. When I stop becoming, that’s when I worry.

Isn't there a curious elegance in how one moment passes into another?

Do question, even the basics!You will be a fool for once!If you don't, you will be, for a lifetime..

It is doubtful we can be Christian in anything unless we are Christian in everything.

A high civilization is a pyramid: it can stand only on a broad base; its primary prerequisite is a strong and soundly consolidated mediocrity.

I began to learn acceptance, direction, understanding and perception - all elements that had been sadly lacking in my life.

If I'm within reach and can be helpful, I have a tendency to say 'Yes.' It's hard to say 'No.

Contrary to popular thinking, being worthy isn't something you earn, it's something you recognize.

Appearance is the most public part of the self. It is our sacrament, the visible self that the world assumes to be a mirror of the invisible, inner self.

I am a thorn in the side of designers.

Open borders and the never-ending parade of illegal immigrants does nothing to build the national economy or the American culture.

Above all, I will keep an open heart. As I move on the right path I will recieve great happiness as a reward without asking for anything in return.