Same circus, different clowns, and without a doubt I'm one of them.
I believe they [images] are the soul's immune system....
But when the thing that is scaring you is already Jesus, who are you supposed to pray to?
At the center of everything we call 'the arts,' and children call 'play,' is something which seems somehow alive.
But paper and ink have conjuring abilities of their own. arrangements of lines and shapes, of letters and words on a series of pages make a world we can dwell and travel in.
Are memories pictures or the secret doorway?
The histories of vampires and people are not so different, really. How many of us can honestly see our own reflection?
One by one most kids I knew quit drawing and never drew again. It left behind too much evidence.
Daily practice with images both written and drawn is rare once we have lost our baby teething begin to think of ourselves as good at some things and bad at other things. It is not that this isn’t true...
As I enter the small intestine I get squeezed by muscles. Its dark and the walls look like slimey crushed velvet theres pancreas juice on me help me I am disintigrating.
Above me soft footsteps, the sound through the ceiling of a teenager haunted by a door to the night. My cousin Maybonne lights up a Salem, blows ghosts to the darkness, be it ever so humble, there's n...
I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and sta...
Something can only become an illusion after disillusionment. before that, it is something real. what caused the disillusionment? no one told me the print on the wall was just ink and paper and had no...
You may be a lady but your are still the man!
When we finish a book, why do we hold it in both hands and gaze at it as if it were somehow alive?
What is an idea made of? Of future, past and also meanwhile.
This ability to exist in pieces is what some adults call resilience. And I suppose in some way it is a kind of resilience, a horrible resilience that makes adults believe children forget trauma.
Playing and fun are not the same thing, though when we grow up we may forget that and find ourselves mixing up playing with happiness. There can be a kind of amnesia about the seriousness of playing,...
On my honor I will do my best to do my duty to god and my country but it might not be the same god as the god of the church and I might not be digging on the message of the president because the windm...
No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.