Leaders need to sacrifice "power-over" to get "power-to".
Time turns our lies into truths.
Start with the end in mind.
But the memories that hang heaviest are the easiest to recall.
...as vivid and fabulous as a unicorn...
...the Moon, the enemy of poets... ("Merchant's Two Sons")
She was made for untidy rooms and rumpled beds.
Summer-induced stupidity. That was the diagnosis...
A voice flat enough to fit under a door crack.
Opening up to the wrong person is like putting ammo in their hands.
Just because it isn't perfect, doesn't mean it isn't awesome.
I read to be alone. I read so as not to be alone.
I played possum. I did this, as the possum does, out of fear.
For God took a handful of blizzard snow, blew on it and created the horse.
Don't ascribe to evil what can be attributed to well-intentioned stupidity.
Sterven is echter de eenzaamste gebeurtenis van het leven. We worden er niet alleen door van anderen afgescheiden, maar daarnaast stelt het ons ook bloot aan een nog angstaanjagender vorm van eenzaamheid: het is een scheiding van de wereld zelf.
Mostra che le loro parole possono ferirti, e non sarai più libero dalla derisione. Se proprio vogliono darti un nome, accettalo, fallo tuo, in modo che poi non possano mai più usarlo per farti del male.
Now-people” are winners; they say “now” and they do it “now”! Do not delay.
Just sit down and write! Me circa 2009
I have seen myself backward.
Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.
