If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.

Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.

I suppose I did feel a certain public pressure always.

Suspect too much sweet talk but never close your mind.

Anything Can Happen, on the other hand, is not only about the atrociousness of the September 11 attack, it is also a premonition of the deadly retaliation that was bound to come.

Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.

Once off the bush The fruit fermented, the sweet flesh would turn sour. I always felt like crying. It wasn't fair That all the lovely canfuls smelt of rot. Each year I hoped they'd keep, knew they would not. -Blackberry picking