Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way.

There are voices and they must be heard.

And you? Now that I have discovered you? Beautiful, dangerous, unleashed. Still I try to hold you, knowing that your body is faced with knives.

The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests. The heart. Carbon-based primitive in a silicon world.

The ancients believed in fate because they recognized how hard it is for anyone to change anything. The pull of past and future is so strong that the present is crushed by it. We lie helpless in the force of patterns inherited and patterns re-enacted by our own behavior. The burden is intolerable.

I am not tempted by God but I love his trappings.

When pieces of work speak to us in a way that feels as if they were made just for us, those become our private worlds that we return to.