I do a lot of rewriting. It’s very painful.

It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.

To garner the courage to go on creating oneself endlessly is a token of maturity. Create yourself. Create your day.

May God give comfort to the suffering souls.

Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?

Continents of memory had been lost.

Then one day I found my head when I wasn't even trying.

You have to understand that nothing appeals to everybody.

Maybe pretty women were always funny but only now decided to go into comedy.

In gymnastics, you have to be perfect every step along the way.

The way I approach things is from an experimental folk music standpoint.

Science does not deal with subjective experience... Well that's too bad because that is all any of us ever have.