Saint Augustine once admonished that we should never use the truth to injure. I believe there are dark and uncertain moments in our lives when it’s not wrong for each of us to feel that he wrote those...
Prosecutors often wince when they have to take a child abuser to trial, because usually the only witnesses they can use are children who are terrified at the prospect of testifying against their paren...
People are what they do, not what they say, not what they think, not what they pretend to be.
No matter how you cut it, I was back to the short form of the Serenity Prayer, known in AA and other recovery groups as Fuck It.
Mortality is not kind, and do not let anyone tell you it is. If there is such a thing as wisdom, and I have serious doubts about its presence in my own life, it lies in the acceptance of the human con...
More important, it’s a place where there are no victims. Everyone there knows the rules and the
Louisiana is not a state; it’s an outdoor mental asylum in which millions of people stay bombed most of their lives.
Jansenist
I’m not telling the troot, no?
It’s funny what can happen when you lay bare the heart and join the Earth’s old dance through the heavens.
It’s always today, Jim, and it’s just going to get better and better, I said.
It was the poem that explained the nature of courage and turned the mystery of death into a heroic couplet. Ultimately, it was the poem that banished fear from the heart and transformed us from actors...
If you're wired a certain way, you'll always be in morion, clicking to your own rhythm, all of it in four-four time, avoiding convention and predictability and control as you would a sickness, the who...
If people stick together, they can always make do.
IN MY OPINION, one of the great follies in the world is to put yourself inside the head of dysfunctional people. The mistake we usually make is to assume there is a rationale for their behavior. In mo...
I wanted to believe he was mad. Unfortunately, I no longer knew what madness was.
I don’t try to correct yesterday’s mistakes in the present. I mark them off. I truly mark them off. A person hurts me only once.
I didn’t mind being alone. Solitude and peace with oneself are probably the only preparation one has for death.
Don’t borrow trouble.
Be your own man, even if you don’t add up to much.