and each of his voices left his body in a different colored soul and floated up towards the sun still singing.

A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction.

Write down the thoughts and even more, write down a specific line. If you don't, it'll fly away forever.

And consider: it is loss to which everything flows, absence in which everything flowers

I have a fork and a spoon, but never a knife… as if I’m lacking manual skills or teeth. I have both, however. That’s why I’m not allowed a knife.

If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.

Hope drives us to invent new fixes for old messes, which in turn create ever more dangerous messes. Hope elects the politician with the biggest empty promise; and as any stockbroker or lottery seller knows, most of us will take a slim hope over prudent and predictable frugality. Hope, like greed, fuels the engine of capitalism.