you wanted it all to make senseand you wanted the most complicated answer, but the answer is simple.just be.

the opening, the breaking, the falling apartis always so quick.the hurting, the healing, the putting back togetheris always too long.

i can't hold onto love.i'm not gentle enough.i always end upcrushing the thingin between my fingertips.

we get brave.we move.we believe.we keep going.

everything i know about loveis that it hurtsand is almost always never returnedthe way you want it to.but i have hopebecause i do not know everything.

you giver of light.you lover of love.you beautifulbeautifulhuman being you.

i am changingand i am loving change.

i am soft again.there is water and it surrounds me.there is feeling and i can feel it.i am awake and aliveand swollen and heavy with love.i am changingand i am loving change.

i am awake and aliveand swollen and heavywith love.

i feel everything.i do not know how to un-feeland to not feelis to stop the sun.

i took it off.i did not want to carry it with me anymore.

I was thinking...""We know, " Pedro said, "It was like sitting next to a pressure cooker

If you're so smart, let's see you get out of the Army.

I don't know if I could rebuild an airplane engine, but I know a little bit about rotors and rivets.

I never stopped reading.

Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, On the one hand on the other.

I was lucky to receive help at the beginning of my career and now I want to help other writers as much as I can.

If you want to reach the infinite, then explore every aspect of the finite.

I think everybody has the right to a private life.

People call us arrogant, but just because we know we are right, it doesn't make us arrogant.

When I see my work in a gallery I often wonder how I got to this point. Sometimes the process of making the work feels like a blur, and I look at the work and wonder how I actually made it.