Metaphor is awkward, but emotion, by its nature, leaves you no more scalable approach.

My own survival required me to counterbalance interesting with invisible.

I was drawn to his aloofness, the way cats gravitate toward people who’d rather avoid them.

There are two sacred causes in this world, ” he said, holding up his pinkie and ring ringer. “Chance and necessity. By chance I was there to help when you had need.

...emotions fly humans toward art

Let the one who seeks justice be just.

I scrupulously hide every legitimate reason for people to hate me, and it turns out they don’t need legitimate reasons. Heaven has fashioned a knife of irony to stab me with.

Someone should love you. I will bite him if he will not.

Sir James waved a gnarled hand. "They're nothing but feral file clerks, dragons. They used to alphabetize the coins in their hoards.

I didn't want this dance to end, or Kiggs to let go of my hand. I didn't want him to turn his eyes away, or live any other moment than this one.

Never stop seeking, even when it seems there is no hope

His level of experience is nearly transcendent.

Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream.

I'm trying to listen to my past, listen to what's most deeply going on inside myself, my creative set of fictional characters, a fictional world - to listen to that world, to search.

Hee that goes to bed thirsty riseth healthy.

Success is born out of arrogance, but greatness comes from humility.

HOW LONG??? No rules on time .. the more aligned you are with positive feelings the quicker things happen.

There would be no sequel to the sadness

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

All that is good and commendable now existing would continue to exist if all marriage laws were repealed tomorrow . . .