I wish you good writing and good luck. Even if you've already done the good writing, you'll still need the good luck. It's a shark-filled lagoon out there. Cross your fingers and watch your back.

The body is so easily damaged, so easily disposed of, water and chemicals is all it is, hardly more to it than a jellyfish drying on sand.

You say, The sensed absence of God and the sensed presence amount to much the same thing, only in reverse.

Messy love is better than none, I guess. I am no authority on sane living.

The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.

I am not a saint or a cripple, I am not a wound; now I will see whether I am a coward.

Gardening is not a rational act. What matters is the immersion of the hands in the earth, that ancient ceremony of which the Pope kissingthe tarmac is merely a pallid vestigial remnant.