...people demonize certain types of crime - it's a way of distancing ourselves from the monsters...
~ John Geddes
...ambition or contentment? This simple question led me back to a more balanced view of life and put me in touch with the Me I used to know...
the abyss you stare into and that stares back at you is your reflection in the mirror - we all have it - that shadow self - that dark heart...
...to know an other's interior life you are his confessor or a writer - the one is admitted freely, the other intrudes by discerning of spirits
the struggle is not with others, but within us, to do what we are called to do
...you don't need a calling to minister love...
...there is no map of the soul because we make it up as we go...
...the wounds of the past and the scars of the present don't disfigure me in your eyes - because you know the price I pay for loving you ...
...the answer is not in the damn blank page - it's in the days or years before and you have to dredge it up - exhume the past again ...
...it was inevitable I loved you - we were soul mates - for the same reason, we were fated to suffer...
...everything I treasure is broken - it's of no use to anybody but me...
...love is suffering - that's the happy ending...
...you go back to liberate the captives and sadly realize, some want to remain tied down in the cave...
...the real absurdity is that to love is to suffer, but the reverse isn't always true...
...it's always somebody's fault - I blame you for my helpless love - do you think I chose this? Your beauty compelled me...
...you can't rationalize suffering - it's indeterminate - the real unknowable variable God substitutes in...
...don't be self-conscious - other people are completely unaware of you and more concerned with how they appear ...
I will not exorcise you—I’d miss your fragrance, the soft tread of your step on the stair
burnt by the sunof your mouth, I’m unable to speak or paint you with words
when I see you, I see mystery - a pale moon's beauty behind a veil of cloud
...I've discovered why you fascinate - you keep the mystery and as Carlyle noted, Wonder is the basis of worship...
...with you, I find peace from pain - You are gentle and healing like the landscape—like rain...
...thinking about laughing with 2 yr old Findlay today - Dostoyevsky was right, “The soul is healed by being with children.” ...
...in January, everything seems desolate. The Moon ascends to cold heights - and I, a ragged sky filled with dark kisses...lie abandoned by you...
...cities are murky places - hatching grounds for monsters...
... only darkened trails of rain could paint your face upon a pane...
...you can have a dark heart and be a writer, but you can't have a black one..
...Sunday evenings are heavier than clouds with rain, darker too and often interminable...
...people quote proverbs without realizing they're really in awe of the authority of their truth and the power of their expression...
...bow to genius, but to the authority of that genius - not the display of talent...
...how many writers still dare compare a woman to Nature, like Campion? - there is a garden in her face - how lovely...
...a writer without authority? Impossible. as Kenneth Burke says, creation implies authority in the sense of originator....
...it's not the stories - it's the pain and the joy and the people who stay with you long after the stories are told ...
...it's not the medium that's the message - it's consciousness - the wonder of being able to wonder ...
...it begins with isolation - demons always inhabit desolate places...
...nobody ever takes from the desert anything but aridity and monsters...
...evil fascinates and repels us - it's a terrible beauty that enthralls us the more we stare into it...
...don't settle for pap - our thoughts wander through eternity - experience the wonder of being alive...
...you do violence with your words if you force them - art is given - the words received, moment by moment from unseen hands - call it a Muse ...
...language always occurs in a context - you can speak Elizabethan words, but to speak the language you have to put on the mindset...
