“Desire gives pain to the heart from which springs both hope and worry. Out of suspicion I make mistakes that grow into lasting ills. And from my stubborn delusions come a thousand deceits, which later I accept as damage I’ve done.”

“I am going to give my heart what it desires, & give my soul what it yearns for.. Since no one else is capable of doing it.”

“Whether written in the stars of the pages of a journal, a dream still blossoms from the heart of the person who possesses the pen.”

“Something in my mind, like an eye behind my eye, sees angel shapes in shadows of our lamp-lit street. As I feel for the pencil in my pocket, I know it’s the Dad part of me at last seeing glints of the divine, even in the grungy pavement.”

“Tears from the old me trickle into a clear cup of truth for the new.”

“I'd rather live my life honestly, than spend it adapting to what others think I should be.”

“It’s like I woke up in another country and all the maps in my head have only made me more lost.”