When we make ourselves vulnerable, we do open ourselves to pain, sometimes excruciating pain. The more people we love, the more we are liable to be hurt, and not only by the people we love, but for the people we love.

In my dreams, I never have an age.

If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned control of ourselves.

God understands. And God understands that part of us which is more than we think we are.

the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let go conscious control.

Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication. -Aunt Beast

Art is an affirmation of life, a rebuttal of death. And here we blunder into paradox again, for during the creation of any form of art, art which affirms the value and the holiness of life, the artist must die. To serve a work of art, great or small, is to die, to die to self.