I wonder of what you must daily endure in America, having no government to protect you, no one to tell you what to do. Is it true you're given no ration card, that you must find food for yourself? Is it true that you labor for no higher purpose than ...
the wounded child inside many males is a boy who, when he first spoke his truths, was silenced by paternal sadism, by a patriarchal world that did not want him to claim his true feelings. The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught...
Tis true my garments threadbare are, And sorry poor I seem; But inly I am richer far Than any poet's dream. For I've a hidden life no one Can ever hope to see; A sacred sanctuary none May share with me. Aloof I stand from out the strife, Within my he...
Birthdays were wretched, delicious things when you lived in Beau Rivage. The clock stuck midnight, and presents gave way to magic. Curses bloomed. Girls bit into sharp apples instead of birthday cake, chocked on the ruby-and-white slivers, and collap...
When you start thinking about what your life was like 10 years ago--and not in general terms, but in highly specific detail--it's disturbing to realize how certain elements of your being are completely dead. They die long before you do. It's astonish...
At the end of the day, there are very few people around you who truly want to see you peaceful, happy and content. Most of your friends only want to see you happy, peaceful and content, in ratio to their own happiness, peace and contentment. It's lik...
It doesn't mean,' she shrugged. 'It just is
This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.
I understood from an early age what being competitive means.
Washington is a mean town where human sacrifice has been raised to an art form.
Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.
Thanksgiving means thanking the givers.
To Americans, either/or means both.
We are cruel enough without meaning to be.
Quickness means you are hustling.
Sufism is known by means of itself.
Brevity did not mean inconsequence...
It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.
The salvation of man is through love and in love
Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
