Except heaven is a hope, and eden is a memory .

Shame is always easier to handle if you have someone to share it with.

How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary.

Pressed against her I can hear eternity -- hollow, lonely spaces and currents that churn ceaselessly, and the fallen snow welcomes the falling snow with a whispered "Hush".

Something about being rejected at Church Camp felt so much more awful than being rejected at school.

I wanted a heaven. And I grew up striving for that world-- an eternal world- that would wash away my temporary misery.

We experience a discomfort that may be foreign to others, but that pain opens up a world of beauty. Wouldn't you think?

Who we are now is all that really matters.

Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.

It seemed everyone knew their place in it, but I was in the mood where I would rather be alone and look a houseplants.

Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.

Running water is perceived as being filled with vitality.

No species ... possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by genetic history ... The human mind is a device for survival and reproduction, and reason is just one of its various techniques.

Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag.

Every moment you are present, there is a little less darkness in our world.

No known roof is as beautiful as the skies above.

The food here is so tasteless you could eat a meal of it and belch and it wouldn't remind you of anything.