That's what depression had wrought inside me: one, vast, barren rock garden-without the garden

I must conquer my loneliness alone. I must be happy with myself or I have nothing to offer you. Two halves have little choice but to join; and yes, they do make a whole. But two wholes when they coincide... that is beauty. That is love.

As with most consensual crimes, this prohibition of hemp is both silly and sinister.

The state, frankly, could care less. Historically, the state has been able to use any religious point of view for its own ends. . . . The examples of government misusing religion are endless.

If we aren't actively pursuing what we want, we don't really want it.

That's what depression had wrought inside me: one, vast, barren rock garden-without the garden

What's more important-your goal, or others' opinions of your goal?