I would always be like this, always have this within me. There was no beating it. I would never slay the dragon, because the dragon was also me. My self and the disease were knotted together for life.
Like many people, I feel like celebrating. Remember this feeling. It is human, and can help us understand when others express bloodlust.
If people were rain ,i was drizzleand she was a hurricane .
You shall love your neighbourWith your crooked heart,It says so much about love and brokenness -- it's perfect.
We live in a universe devoted to the creation, and eradication, of awareness. Augustus Waters did not die after a lengthy battle with cancer. He died after a lengthy battle with human consciousness, a...
That brief walk was one of those moments he knew he'd remember and look back on, one of those moments that he'd try to capture in the stories he told. Nothing was happening, really, but the moment was...
Photographs are just light and time,
Nobody gets anybody else, not really. We're all stuck inside ourselves.
It was a lame string, for sure, but it was the one I had left and every paper girl needs at least one string, right? (58)
I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think...
He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars.
And yet still I worried. I like being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect of dying.
A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it.
...the kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world. t
But there was so much todo: cigarettes to smoke, sex to have, swings to swing on. I'll have more time for reading when I'm old and boring.
We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE in a ridiculous attempt to survive our deaths. I can't stop pissing on fi...
I want to leave a mark.But Van Houten: The marks humans leave are too often scars.
I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.
I find it really offensive when people say that the emotional experiences of teenagers are less real or less important than those of adults. I am an adult, and I used to be a teenager, and so I can te...
You used, he said, and then took a sharp breath, to call me Augustus.