life is a dream

The rhythm of solitude, once so intimidating, began to feel comfortable. Aloneness, I was learning, does not have to equal loneliness.

Some of the things I hated my parents for when I was younger are the same things I love my parents for now that I'm older.

You will be the death of me, woman.

I remember when I was a little boy my father didn't love me; he couldn't. He loved my older brother but he couldn't love me somehow, at least not in a way I could understand it.

Acceptance is the only way out of hell.

Man, who don't like spaghetti?

. . . I believe one half of the world is born for the convenience of the other half . . .

I live on a one-way street that's also a dead end. I'm not sure how I got there.

Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of angels.

Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.