The only hat worth wearing was the one you made for yourself
Sunday, November 6th, 2011
She snatched off the hat with stars on it. It wasn’t a bad hat, for show, although the stars made is look like a toy. But it was never her hat. It couldn’t be…
Self Esteem Quotes
I exist as I am, that is enough
Thursday, October 27th, 2011
If no other in the world be aware I sit content,
And if each and all be aware I sit content.
One world is aware and by far the largest to me, and that…
The finest pear tree in the world could not bear the commonest apples
Friday, June 25th, 2010
The most excellent talent could not produce the same effects as the most commonplace; and thus again it is as ridiculous to want to write maxims if you have not the seed within you as to expect a flower-bed to produce tulips if…
Truth rejected is gravity reversed: no cornerstone, no castle
Friday, May 21st, 2010
And I Breathe
To guard the castle
I left my treasure
told no one and waited, a secret cornerstone
braced for a long, cold wait before prodigal return
Writer’s block is simply a failure of ego
Tuesday, May 4th, 2010
The literal details of writing involve one’s own physiology and metabolism. You begin from a standing start and have to accelerate yourself to the point of cerebration where the words are coming – well, and in order. All…
I don’t want to make somebody else. I want to make myself.
Saturday, May 1st, 2010
“You ain’t been in this house ten seconds and already you starting something.”
“Takes two, Big Mamma.”
“Well, don’t let your mouth start nothing that your ass can’t…”
Be yourself. No more hiding.
Thursday, April 29th, 2010Well, in my case, it took a Hungarian black belt judo player who’s also a director. I had lunch one day with him and his wife and lunch was over and they both left the room and I thought they’re going to make coffee.
Suddenly, my arms are gripped from behind me and pulled…
When I discover who I am, I’ll be free
Thursday, March 11th, 2010
I fell to plotting ways of short-circuiting the machine. Perhaps if I shifted my body about so that the two nodes would come together – No, not only was there no room but it might electrocute me. I shuddered. Whoever else I…
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business
Friday, February 12th, 2010
I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won’t amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels…
Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes
Saturday, November 28th, 2009
If you don’t like yourself, you can’t like other people…
I don’t believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make
Saturday, August 15th, 2009
Besides, such admissions only draw attention to one’s shortcomings (or self-perceived shortcomings), and make the other person think, “Yes, you’re right, this is really an awful meal!” Maybe the cat has fallen into the…
