We can't be intimate because we can't share feelings that we don't have

I was taught that pain is bad.

What happens is that people who are very religious but who are not in touch with reality, cannot be spiritual.

The way to love someone is to lightly run your finger over that person's soul until you find a crack, and then gently pour your love into that crack.

All I have to tell you about is what I have heard and seen of Jesus, how He is helping me find freedom, to occasionally love other people, and even accept myself with all my mixed motives.

I am too old to think.

The writing of poetry is a chancy business, it's currency solitude and loss, its tools coffee and too much wine, its hours midnight, dawn, and dusk, and unlike other trade the hours asleep are not time off.