I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root: It is what you fear. I do not fear it: I have been there.

A psychiatrist is the god of our age. But they cost money.

I can't think logically about who I am or where I am going. I have been very ecstatic, horribly depressed, shocked, elated, enlightened, and enervated.

Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.

Doreen had intuition. Everything she said was like a secret voice speaking straight out of my own bones.

My worst habit is my fear & my destructive rationalizing.

Antoine St. Exupery once mourned the loss of a man and the secret treasures that he held inside him. I loved Exupery; I will read him again, and he will talk to me, not being dead, or gone. Is that life after death — mind living on paper and flesh living in offspring? Maybe. I do not know.