Clear communication between selves - the surface self and the deep self - is the enemy of self-doubt. It slays confusion.

the year she had run fleetly through the dewy grass under the moon- the night of wine, when dreams condensed out of thin air like the nightmilk of fantasy.

By tomorrow at this time, I think you're going to have a much better idea of what crazy is. -- Ev Hillman

You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen.

You'll consider what you did wrong & bookend your reflections with hunger - no supper, no breakfast.

I think uncertainty is good for things. Certainty breeds complacency and complacency means that you just sit somewhere in your nice little comfortable suburban house in Michigan, looking at CNN and saying, "Oh, those poor immigrant children that are all coming across the border. But we really can't have them here - that isn't what God wants. Let's send them all back to the drug cartels." There's a complacency to it.

Everything's a lot tougher when it's for real. That's when you choke. When it's for real.