Pain is strong, aye - but friends' eyes, more strong. I told him that he knows next to nothing about me & I know nothing about him. He jabbed at his eyes & jabbed at mine, as if that single gesture we...
Our truth is terrorsome cold.
Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.
Other nights, Ayrs likes me to read him poetry, especially his beloved Keats. He whispers the verses as I recite, as if his voice is leaning on mine.
One moment you're carrying this loveable little tyke on your shoulders, the next she's off, and you realize what you suspected all along: However much you love them, your own children are only ever on...
Nothing is as eloquent as nothing.
My role was to pulse at the edge of the universe of the faithful, alone in the darkness. An outrider. A herald.
Most yarnin's got a bit o' true, some yarnin's got some true, an' a few yarnin's got a lot o' true.
Men invented money Women invented mutual aid
Matter is thought, and thought is matter. Nothing exists that cannot be synthesized.
Love is the anesthetic applied by Nature to extract babies.
I’d learn betrayals came in various shapes and sizes, but to betray someone’s dream is the unforgivable one.
It's true, reading too many novels makes you go blind.
If war's first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency.
If only human beings were notmasks behind masks behind masks.If only this world wasa clean board of lines and intersections.If only time wasa sequence of considered movesand not a chaos of slippages a...
I skanked deep on Wolt's pipe an' four days march from our free Windward to Kona Leeward seemed like four mil'yun, yay, babbybies o' blissweed cradled me that night, then the drummin' started up, see...
I have no earliest memories, Archivist. Every day of my life in Papa Song was as uniform as the fries we vended.
I have always preferred maps to books. They don't answer you back. Never throw a map away.
I got a six'n'six so maybe my luck was healin', so I thinked, fool o' fate what I am, yay, what we all are.
I find geriatric prodigies much more interesting than child prodigies