Love is an active construction, and choice, not just an encounter that happens by chance.

True lovers are as rare as true rebels.

I am as much what I am because of what I still don't have as I am because of what I have had and what I might still have one day.

Quotes are like prompts. A way of searching, connecting the dots.

Quotes are a way of acting out not just a text, and not just thinking, but the making of a text. The construction of thinking.

Thinking through quotes, which to say scouring a range of texts for insight, is one way to outline the process of thinking/feeling through a subject.

The digital age is for me in many ways about temporal wounding. It's really messed up our ontological clocks.

One of the liberating things about having a blog is the total vision it allows.

Love has been the ontological pattern for me. And also the withholding pattern.

At any moment I could give up, but I haven't because love for me is an indispensable structure for being.

I'm a discursive thinker, so quotation has played an active role in the structure and content of my books from the beginning.

Belief and faith are great, but very few peoplehave been led astray by thinking for themselves.

Mind easily mesmerized when frightened.

The smile on his face said, pure and simple, those honey cakes came with a price. And his price was answers.

In my eyes, all readers are my father and mother. You may see a boy, with all of his body and heart bared, resplendently smiling to mom, and that boy is me.

I was really running a music school back then, because my band wasn't making any money. I keep talking about money, because most people don't understand the part of money in running a band.

She fell into the moody, miserable state of mind which often comes when strong wills have to yield to the inevitable.

I hope that I will never forget the salvific power of joyful laughter.

I'm not the greatest driver. I don't know if I'll ever master the art.

There are things that are too terrible to remember, and there are things that are almost too wonderful to recall.

Either way, everything will be fine. But if you have an opinion, please feel free to offer it to me through the gap in the door of a public restroom. Everyone else does.