Can you become The hope I need? Can you help me be More than it is written in my future Or past? Is there another me to find?

he was trying to convince himself that he wasn't guilty.

I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train.

New York is my favorite city.

What some people wanted was sometimes too hard to get, and the stress of trying was sometimes too hard to deal with... Maybe doing well in life was just too hard for some people.

It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken

I admired the work ethic of the cowboys I read about. The idea of these young people taking on this much responsibility was impressive. I would like modern readers to have an appreciation of this.