For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.

Take me away from all this Death.

I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.

Once again...welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.

I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.

No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.

There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.

Despair has its own calms.

We learn from failure, not from success!

Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.

Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker

It was as if they had climbed the last hill in creation.

Be Patient to become a Patent

Tears on your mother's eyes are heavier than ocean waters

Tokyo may have more money and Kyoto more culture Nara may have more history and Kobe more style. But Osaka has the biggest heart.

From the Zen view all beings are in the grip of the three poisons, greed, anger and delusion (ignorance).

Halloween Costume I Hate: kids dressed as their parent's poltical beliefs. Oooh! Aren't you a scary health care reform bill!

Wine is meant to be with food - that's the point of it.

I do think the Cubans have to change some of the political structures there and allow critical voices, for their own sakes, because unless there is accountability the revolution will totally atrophy.

The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.

What can a man do to move along in some kind of grace through his days and years?