Starved for affection, terrified of abandonment, I began to wonder if sex was really just an excuse to look deeply into another human being's eyes.

The more you want something to happen, the harder it becomes.

Do you ever just want to take your car out onto the highway and gun the engine as fast as you can and then close your eyes and see what happens?

Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?

You guys just wait and see. We'll stand taller than these mountains. We'll bare open our hearts for the world to grab. We'll see lights where there was dimness. We'll testify together to what we have seen and felt. Life will go on--all of us--crawling; stumbling, falling perhaps. But we will be the strong ones. Our hearts will shine brightly.

The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder.

Here's my theory about meetings and life: the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity.