I am deeply discouraged by Catholic Bishops who say Catholics cannot support same sex marriage in our secular culture.

The fact that I loved you was the greatest lie I have ever lived.

For always in her there was a dark place full of despair and a great dividing force to make meaning because there was none.

Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!

Old truths and ancient magic, revolution and invention, all conspire to distract us from the passion that in one way or another defeats us all.

I'm hoping what all sentient beings hope ... that somehow I'm part of something larger than myself, in which I play a role, an actual role that is somehow intended and meaningful.

I felt ravaged, and with both hands in a fantasy I reached out for her figure as we ran together through the meadow which belonged only to us and to which these others could never be admitted."Oh, inocent love," she said even as she drank from me, "oh, innocent innocent love."