...reclusiveness itself may be a kind of violence. It leaves an abyss for us to throw our fantasies into.

The mind is an empire unto itself.

You can start with nothing and still succeed. However, if you don't start you will never succeed.

A great life evolves with gratitude.

The graveyard is every man final resting place.

Good part about life is everyone is broken...

You can't get into the Hall of Fame unless you limp.

What I have learned the most is that women have always been integral to shaping America; they just haven't been recognized across all fields.

Too much to take in, too much to purge. Why must every memory, once sweet, dead end in such ugliness?

Whether you plan or whether you flow in order to be creative probably isn't the point. The point is to keep practicing to maintain neural pathways and to establish new ones by learning new skills.

i remembered the myth about Andromeda and how she had been chained to a rock by her own parents as a sacrifice to a sea monster. Maybe she'd gotten too many F's on her report card or something.