Mama always taught her children that words were pretty, but anyone can talk. She said, pay attention to that man or woman who acted, who did, who performed. She taught us to trust in thing we could see, not that we heard.

Know this. I think you could be special if you only thought there was anything special about yourself.

My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of an indrawn tide.

I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.

I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing.

The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.

If smallness was fortune, then I had come across a treasure, infinitesimal and beyond value. I felt lucky. You had to decide what was estimable and precious in your life and set out to find it. The objects you valued defined you.