I don't think there's any difference between a crush and profound love. I think the experience is that you dissolve your sentries and your battalions for a moment and you really do see that there is this unfixed free-flowing energy of emotion and thought between people, that it really is there.

Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation of a deity.

It's four in the morning, the end of december I'm writing you now just to see if you're better.

The Maestro says it's Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum when you're waiting for the miracle to come.

And may my bronze name / touch always her thousand fingers / grow brighter with her weeping / until I am fixed like a galaxy / and memorized / in her secret and fragile skies.

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

I was 15 when I first became deeply touched by the rhythm and structure of words.