My mind was always very cluttered, so I took great pains to simplify my environment, because if my environment were half as cluttered as my mind, I wouldn't be able to make it from room to room. This system has just worked for me, even though I've had to sweat over every word. It's just my style.

The dreamers ride against the men of action. Oh see the men of action falling back.

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

Your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm

Certainly within any decadent period, you would probably find the purest expressions of conviction, and I do not see that in many of the people I know.

Everybody knows the dice are loaded.

It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender