Why is humanism not the preeminent belief of humankind?

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

Ish #177 "You never know what you don't know, until you finally know it.

I guess what they say is true. Anything the government wants to hide, they stick it in New Mexico

Getting bored is not allowed.

I'm patient.

At bottom, every state regards another as a gang of robbers who will fall upon it as soon as there is an opportunity.

Prayer succeeds when all else fails

My fans are my lovers, my friends, my family, my Everything

I used to go out with actresses and other female impersonators.

I can say that paintings are prayers, they have to do with anything that makes you wish for more that what everyday life provides.

I always like to serve the people some good soul music, and Christmas was just the cherry on top.