no one needs love from youmore than you need love from you.love yourself first, and you will always be in love.

the opening, the breaking, the falling apartis always so quick.the hurting, the healing, the putting back togetheris always too long.

i can't hold onto love.i'm not gentle enough.i always end upcrushing the thingin between my fingertips.

we get brave.we move.we believe.we keep going.

everything i know about loveis that it hurtsand is almost always never returnedthe way you want it to.but i have hopebecause i do not know everything.

you giver of light.you lover of love.you beautifulbeautifulhuman being you.

i am changingand i am loving change.

i am soft again.there is water and it surrounds me.there is feeling and i can feel it.i am awake and aliveand swollen and heavy with love.i am changingand i am loving change.

i am awake and aliveand swollen and heavywith love.

i feel everything.i do not know how to un-feeland to not feelis to stop the sun.

i took it off.i did not want to carry it with me anymore.

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this

Some days punch us in the gut so hard it seems we can feel the whole universe gasp with despair.

Three scents accompany my memories of this place: cut wood, poppy-seed bread, and the soft, crisp smell of snow.

The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?

I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.

There is really a whole new appreciation when you leave and then come back.

If we were to all sit in a circle and confess our sins, we would laugh at each other for lack of originality.

Confidence is the stain they can't wipe off.

Build pockets of stillness into your life.

I find a lot of writing happens when you're not actually at the computer. So I carry a notebook.