Everything is emotional because hope is… When I talk to people I no longer see rational beings engaged in rational discourse, I see objects, emoting. It has made me such a deep materialist that I see everything as objects, people, dogs, trees, rocks- objects that burn with the animation of hope, each engaged in their own private miracle of being. And the things that people make, the buildings and machines, the paintings and the poems, are artificial miracles, which glow from the light borrowed from their makers.

~ Paul Shepheard

Paul Shepheard Emoting Emotional Humanity Light Like Materialist

Writers use narratives to select from everything there is, and make contexts by putting the pieces into relation; that’s what writers do, they make contexts.

~ Paul Shepheard

Paul Shepheard Context Narrative Writers Writing

Getting older is a question of coming to terms with the fact that you’ll never know the secrets, and the resulting equilibrium is what gives the illusion of actually knowing them.

~ Paul Shepheard

Paul Shepheard Aging Getting Older Growing Up Pains