Dawn is a friend of the muses, even if they aren't awake to appreciate it.

A fickle lover, sleep takes us as it will, when it wants, and how. Sensing her desperate need, however, it draws Corrie deeply into its embrace, somewhere between her tears and terror.

Then again, that's how the most successful predators work, she thinks ruefully. We stumble into their traps and do their work for them while we're busy getting on with the business of living.

If there's a password needed at the gates of heaven, only Latin will unlock it, he thinks.

People say the darkness is where secrets are best hidden. Night time brings clarity and focus to owls, even if the aperture of this vision comes with a stigma.

When I write, I feel like an armless leg less man with a crayon in his mouth.

But then had come the voice that said, Come on, you little freak, wherever the hell you are, whatever the hell you are, let’s get this done with.

We can only come to terms with our own place in the world by compassionately commiserating with the pang of longing that our brethren experience.

The combination of ammonia and chloride can be lethal but I've discovered it can work miracles as long as you keep telling yourself, "I want to love, I want to live.

You are what you do, not what you say.

That queen of secrecy, the violet.

If we can not love the person whom we see, how can we love God whom we can not see?

Anything that draws attention to ourselves through pain-free or artificial means is a manifestation of Resistance.

Only psychos and shamans create their own reality

Generally, elders are among the more reverent members of the Church, but there is no law prescribing their age.