As they become known to and accepted by us, our feelings and the honest exploration of them become sanctuaries and spawning grounds for the most radical and daring of ideas, a safe house for that difference so necessary to change. - Audre Lorde

A life in the past cannot be shared with the present. each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone. - Alan Lightman

One of the best things [to] bring into the world.. is a natural humility of spirit. About the next best thing... and they usually go together, is an appreciative spirit - a loving and susceptible heart. - John Burroughs

When you realize you are mortal, you also realize the tremendousnes of the future. You fall in love with a time you will never perceive. - Etel Adnan

The true and durable path into and through experience involves being true.. to your own solitude, true to your own secret knowledge. - Seamus Heaney

The man who unmasks his fictions renounces his own resources and, in a sense, himself. Consequently, he will accept other fictions which will deny him, since they will not have cropped up from his own depths. - Emil Cicoran

To know what you're going to draw, you have to begin drawing. - Pablo Picasso


Hate, in a the long run, is about as nourishign as cyanide. - Kurt Vonnegut