You have time. Meaning don’t use it, but pass through time in patience, waiting for something to come. Prepare for its arrival. Don’t rush to meet it. Be a conduit.
Sometimes what other people want is wantable, briefly, before dissolving in the face of your own wants.
I was not likely to join a cult. That was not the danger I felt in glimpsing the feet of the dead, the bucket from which they drank. It was the proven fact, in the photographed feet, that you could dr...
All the talk of regret. They make you form your life around one thing, the thing you did, and you have to grow yourself from what cannot be undone: they want you to make something from nothing. They m...
The thing about songwriting, John Dogg was saying to someone, is that you can address things obliquely, but no matter. You can’t get away from the content that is the essence of the form. All songs ar...
Seks is geen ruilhandel, het is een schenkeconomie.
Lovers offered only what they offered and nothing more, and what they offered came with provisos.
I don’t know if it’s revolutionary not to work, she had told me, but it’s better. When you sell your body you are what you do. You’re yourself and you get paid for it, or so she had thought at the tim...
I can only know myself, if I can know anyone. I can only judge me.
Because I didn't move here to fall in love. The desire for love is universal but that has never meant it's worthy of respect. it's not admirable to want love it just is.
People only tend to allow their own contradictions, and not those of others. It was okay to be murky to yourself, to know you weren't an angel, but other people had to be more cleanly divided into goo...
When I was little, skiing in the Sierras, I felt that I was drawing on the mountain’s face, making big sweeping graceful lines. That was how I had started to draw, I’d told Sandro, as a little girl, f...
What occurred did so because I was open to it, and not because fate and I met at a certain angle. I had plenty of time to think about this later. I thought about it so much that the events of that eve...
What happens between bodies during an insurrection is more interesting than the insurrection itself.
Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson.
But at the same time, Sandro understood that people only tended to allow their own contradictions, and not those of others. It was okay to be murky to yourself, to know you weren’t an angel, but other...
Change was such an elusive thing. A man could say every day that he wanted to change his life, was going to change it, and every day the lament became merely a part of the life he was already living,...
Was one of those. If you follow their rules, they make more rules. You have to fight people or you end up with nothing.
You couldn’t hate someone who saw the world so differently.
Who knew why they waited, I thought, understanding that I, too, had it in me to wait. To expect change to come from outside, to concentrate on the task of meeting it, waiting to meet it, rather than g...