The Briefest Respite

If all you do is make something beautiful for someone else, even if it's only for a moment, with a single word or small action, you have done a great service.

Because life can be ugly and frustrating and for so many, it is.

The Oceanic Feelings

The scariest thing you can think of, is giving up the thing that kills you. The thing you can't live without.

The Jacket Weather

Loneliness is a kind of winter. And you drag me, kicking and screaming, into some kind of bright summer.

The Blurred Palace

I hope you fail often so that you often have things worth learning.

The Love Like Sunlight

I hope one day you get to love someone like you love breathing air or drinking water. Like they are fundamental to your existence, needed and necessary.

I hope you get to love like gravity loves, like the sun loves the earth.

Like warm sunlight upon soil that makes plants grow.

I hope one day you get to love like that.

The House With Cardboard On The Windows

"You think I'm trying to make art? Man, I'm just trying to make a living."

The Silver Astrolabe

Remember,

There's a map beneath your skin and all your veins are rivers, there's directions and instructions written in secret on your bones, there's a star you can't see that shines in a North you'll never know.

And a secret current, beneath the waves, that carries you to the end of you.