Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you.

Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown.

Mary Baker Eddy is said to have had a phone installed in her coffin just in case she happened to wake up. I've been told that's an urban myth. Somebody should check it out.

The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.

Nature full strength is more than we can take, Adam One used to say. It's a potent hallucinogen, a soporific, for the untrained Soul. We're no longer at home in it. We need to dilute it. We can't drink it straight. And God is the same. Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.

I write as if I've lived a lot of things I haven't lived.