“ A shaman and a writer each serve as their communities’ seers by engaging in extraordinary acts of conscientious study of the past and the present and predicting the future. An inner voice calls to the… Kilroy J. Oldster
“ I think—the hero observes that nothing is so frightening as a labyrinth with no center. Jorge Luis Borges
“ At this point, I want to say point-blank what I hope is already clear: though agrarianism proposes that everybody has agrarian responsibilities, it does not propose that everybody should be a farmer o… Wendell Berry
“ A good writer should be able to communicate to the reader, 'I know your life. I know what you have truly experienced. It’s not right or wrong. It’s survival. It’s making mistakes, and trying to redeem… Sergio Troncoso
“ Personal essay writing is analogous to undertaking a vision quest, a potential turning point in life taken to discover intimate personal truths, form complex abstract thoughts, and ascertain the inten… Kilroy J. Oldster
“ Writing places a person in the community of those imaginative spirits whom preceded their birth. Writing also connects a person with the intrepid spirits whom share the present as well as with those s… Kilroy J. Oldster
“ Had I been placed among those nations which are said to live still in the sweet freedom of nature's first laws, I assure you I should very gladly have portrayed myself here entire and wholly naked.Thu… Michel de Montaigne
“ The womb of the world births us. My filth comes from the same earthwork that gives rise to all stories. My interior light connects me with all the other creatures that inhabit this world of rocks, air… Kilroy J. Oldster
“ Storytelling creates a healing serum. The thematic unguent of our personal story represents a fusion of the ineffable truths that each of us must discover within ourselves. Kilroy J. Oldster
“ Writing is an exhausting and demoralizing task that destroys human conceits. Writing an elongated series of personal essay opens a person’s mind to explore paradoxes and discover previously unrealized… Kilroy J. Oldster
“ Writing and other efforts to produce an enduring piece of artwork is a gallant response to the prospect of death. Every person knows that they must die, and consequently people build elaborate symboli… Kilroy J. Oldster
“ Fiction, with its preference for what is small and might elsewhere seem irrelevant; its facility for smuggling us into another skin and allowing us to live a new life there; its painstaking devotion t… David Malouf
“ Whether people need nature or not, it was clear that nature needed people. But perhaps nature needs us like a hostage needs her captors: nature needs us not to annihilate her, not to run her over, not… Amy Leach
“ Coco Chanel is said to have said that a girl should be two things: who and what she is. I say a girl should do two things: what and who she wants. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ Some people are so sexually unattractive that the thought of masturbating turns them off. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ The primary goal of a righteous parent who has a daughter is to minimize the number of boys and men for whom their daughter will have willingly opened her legs come her wedding day; the closer to zero… Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ A man cannot really be called (sexually) confident if he has never bought his woman a vibrator. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ Some women have been faking orgasms for so long that they sometimes fake one when they are masturbating. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ It was masturbation, not willpower, that made it possible for gazillions of women to walk down the aisle with their reputation and their hymen still intact. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
