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I have learned to smoke because I need something to hold onto.

It's because I'm only interested in the big things that I'm not interested in politics.

You have to be slightly blind to believe in any cause.

But those with shattered souls find it very difficult to speak.

I am overrun, infested with a menagerie of desires.

Who, if I cried, would hear me among the angelic orders?

For who plans suicide sitting in the sun?

You have to have short fingernails or they'd just break off, and you can't wear red polish - it looks like your fingers are bleeding.

Knowing it can always get worse, I try to be grateful for whatever good I have.

I am possessed by love and have no options.

The temperament of a dandelion or cosmic preservation. Where does wonder begin?

He is mad.
I am mad too, with an inward curtain-like madness. A pall.
There is no illumination.

When faced with pain and evil, we have to make a choice.
We can choose to be taken by the evil.
Or we can try to embrace the good.

I feel helpless, hopeless, too low to call out, too weak to think. Impotent tears dribble down.

Swearing invulnerably, I measure mercilessly his shortcomings, and with luxurious scorn, ask who could be ensnared there.

But the human spirit is resilient. God made us so. He gave us the ability to forgive. To leave our past behind. To look forward instead of back.

All time is now, and time can do no better. Nothing can ever be more now than now, and before this nothing was.

Music is the unspoken language that can convey feelings more accurately than talking ever could.

A pen is a furious weapon. But it needs a rage of will.

Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow.

The long days seduce all thought away, and we lie like the lizards in the sun, postponing our lives indefinitely.

Day deceives, but at night no one is safe from hallucinations.

he has martyred me, but for no cause

Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work!

Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.