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Life doesn't retreat.
We are all eaters of souls.
Its hard to die. Harder to live
Mobs have passions, not brains.
Love is nothing but lust misspelled.
Context is to data what water is to a dolphin
Stupidity has a price and it always gets paid.
You have to live to really know things, my love
Lovemaking seems all too absurd when described.
Power: a currency that never went out of style.
No book or poem is ever finished, merely abandoned.
The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.
In such seconds of decision entire futures are made.
The whole planet reeks of mysticism without revelation.
But it's not just a game of finding literary references.
God is found in this Life ... to wait for another is folly.
It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?
Sometimes ... dreams are all that separate us from the machines.
His imagination was always more real than the reality of daily life.
Artists recognize other artists as soon as the pencil begins to move.
If our god's work is to be done in our time, we must do it ourselves.
All of our lives are governed by a certain degree of faith in bullshit.
Nothing helps an artist's career more than a little death and obscurity.
Losing our ignorance can be dangerous because our ignorance is a shield.
What, after all, is more real to us than the geography of our childhoods?
Nobody gets beyond a petroleum economy. Not while there's petroleum there.
How could anyone stay sane with entire lifetimes stored in one human mind?
Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers.
It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.
There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain.
I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher
I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.
As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction
As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction.
Love was as hardwired into the structure of the universe as gravity and matter.
... all good things beyond sleep come precisely because we defy gravity while we live.
The problem with being passionately in love ... is that it deprives you of too much sleep.
Life is brutal that way ... the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.
I loved you backward and forward in time. I loved you beyond boundaries of time and space.
It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri
It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri.
No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.
I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed
I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.
Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity.
Laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove.
Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.
The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.
Words are the light and sound of our existence, the heat lightning by which the night is illuminated.
Anticlimax is, of course, the warp and way of things. Real life seldom structures a decent denouement.