The other day I was playing Scrabble. I saw that I could close the space in D-E- -Y. I had an N and an F. Which do you think I chose? What was the word I made?

Just because you have stopped sinking doesn't mean you're not still underwater.

We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive.

Sometimes a flat-footed sentence is what serves, so you don't get all writerly: 'He opened the door.' There, it's open.

They say the smart dog obeys but the smarter dog knows when to disobey.

Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed.

Wear your heart on the page, and people will read to find out how you solved being alive.

In my head there's a broken balcony I fall off of when I speak.

if it's true your life flashes past your eyes before you die, then it is also the truth that your life rushes forth when you are ready to start to truly be alive.

I sleep with a glass of water on the nightstand so I can see by its level if the coastal earth is trembling or if the shaking is still me.

I want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself.

Truth is the summit of being

Meanwhile in my head, I’m undergoing open-heart surgery.

Is it cynical to assume that anyone smiling is a liar and a criminal?

To meditate what you need to do is free yourself from your ideas and your thoughts. All of the higher dimensional planes, the higher realities, the infinite cosmos itself is beyond thought.

Somewhere in that database my name sat in its own little niche, the name of a reject, undisciplined and worthless. Just the way I liked it.

It is as certain that many opinions, now general, will be rejected by future ages, as it is that many, once general, are rejected by the present.

Mark Ryden is my favorite visual artist.

I have returned many times to honour the valiant men who died...every man who set foot on Omaha Beach was a hero.

by thus keeping one pace ahead of myself I need never catch up with the truth.

The eyes of our souls only then begin to see when our bodily eyes are closing.