'Things. Cosas. Things attach themselves like leeches to the human soul, then they bleed out the sweetness and the music and the primordial joy of being unencumbered upon the land.'

'Accept that you're a pimple and try to keep a lively sense of humor about it. That way lies grace - and maybe even glory'

'I'm looking for the novelists whose writing is an extension of their intellect rather than an extension of their neurosis.'

'For most people, self-awarness and self-pity blossom simultaneously in early adolescence. Its about that time that we start viewing the world as something oth…

'Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free, 'Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be, And when we find ourselves in the place just right, 'Twi…

The world stands out on either side No wider than the heart is wide; Above the world is stretched the sky, - No higher than the soul is high. The heart can pus…

My soul has gained the freedom of the night.