my parents Oedipal fakers

Words carry oceans on their small backs.

Sometimes a mind is just born late, coming through waves on a slower journey. You were never, in the end, alone. Isn’t it a blessing, what becomes from inside the alone.

It is possible to make family any way you like. It is possible to love men without rage. There are thousands of ways to love men.

We are all swimmers before the dawn of oxygen and earth. We all carry the memory of that breathable blue past.

Language is a metaphor for experience. It’s as arbitrary as the mass of chaotic images we call memory–but we can put it into lines to narrativize over fear.

It's been so long since I've let myself feel anger that I don't just feel it. It covers my mouth and I swallow it down, the taste sharp and metal as though I'm gnawing through foilware.

Transactional politics requires us to be pragmatic about current realities and the state of public opinion. It's all about getting the best result possible given the circumstances here and now.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

I have no desire to live anywhere else but New Zealand. I've had the good fortune to travel widely around the world, but New Zealand is home - and I like to be here. I'm proud to be a New Zealander.

Nature is the mirror of divinity.

The harder I prepare, the luckier I seem to get.

One is often guilty by being too just.

I was unfaithful even to Infidelity.

O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood; Land of the mountain and the flood!

I absolutely believe the species, the planet and the Universe can't survive if we function on hate.