The walls of the closet are guarded by the dogs of terror, and the inside of the closet is a house of mirrors.

What you will do matters. All you need is to do it.

We lavender folk spray up, spontaneously flowering in the color we had learned as an identifying mark of our culture when it was subterranean and secret.

Woman is as common as a loaf of bread, and like a loaf of bread, will rise.

We cannot live in the past, nor can we re-create it. Yet as we unravel the past, the future also unfolds before us, as though they are mirrors without which neither can be seen or happen.

Everyone wants Love to follow them / down their road; / where is it that Love wants to go?

Those who believe they are ugly / objectify the rest of us.

From my mother, a rock, / I have learned that rocks give / most of all.

Not daring to flee since my general location has just been broadcast to any killer who cares. I mean, I know it's cold out here and not everybody has a sleeping bag.

Depression isn't just being a bit sad. It's feeling nothing. It's not wanting to be alive anymore.

What do you say when you feel your life is taken right from your chest, even though I miraculously find myself still breathing?

After the struggle for sheer existence, they had no energy left for a civilization.

. . . it is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it.

I used to practice clinical medicine. Now I practice political medicine, because it's the mother of all illnesses.

Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.

Travel is an act of humility

In the cafe bathroom drinking free tap water Thinking; "Damn, I should've been a better father to my daughter"

Luxury is feeling unrushed. It is designing a life that allows you to do what you want with high leverage, with many options, all while feeling unrushed.