They moved together, blue diamonds on a green field.

The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance; some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.

The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious.

I learned failure early and mastered it.

Maybe the definition of home is the place where you are never forgiven. So you may always belong there, bound by guilt. And maybe the cost of belonging is worth it.

Birds know themselves not to be at the center of anything, but at the margins of everything. The end of the map. We only live where someone's horizon sweeps someone else's. We are only noticed on the edge of things; but on the edge of things, we notice much.

The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace.