I love Derrick Brown for the surprise of one word waking up next to another. One moment tender, funny or romantic, the next, visceral, ironic and relevatory-here is the full chaos of life. An amazing talent.

If sinners where so unhappy, why would they prefer their suffering? But now I knew why. Without my wounds, who was I?

Don't attach yourself to anyone who shows you the least bit of attention because you're lonely. Lonliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best thing you can do it know yourself... know what you want.

Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow.

One can bear anything. The pain we cannot bear will kill us outright.

I felt like an undeveloped photograph that he was printing, my image rising to the surface under his gaze.

Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape.