Every night you pray for their protection. You pray for their protection from you.

The poignance of the indoor cat who finally gets out on Christmas.

1) infinite entry points for any text, image or situation
2) when the mind’s conception of itself becomes unsafe

The more complex the organism, the more putrescent in decay. Also, the more difficult to love.

Like many spiritual leaders, he had a far higher asshole quotient than one would have expected from his public persona.

Brick painted the color of brick, an object turned into a sign.

With art, he said, it’s not the thing that’s the thing, it’s the thing behind the thing.

Yesterday: the temperature dropped to 97—the 42nd straight day it has topped 90 degrees.
Metropolitan Forecast: Intense heat and humidity will prevail once again across the region. Wednesday will continue hot and humid. Readings near 100 degrees. Thurs, same. Fri, same.
Horoscope: The best of all worlds may be offered to you soon

Her family was small and she had no real friends. She supposed that if her parents had thought about it they would have considered her a disappointment. Yet somehow her heart was still bursting with the sadness and joy of living, a sensation so painful that she sought oblivion by any means available.

A grid system was developed in order to rationalize intuitive choices.

 She was rich in spirit, but mainly just rich.

He didn’t want to be that guy who didn’t want to be that guy.

Who’s the asshole, somebody asked, and when he repeated the question I realized he was referring to me.

The seventies were shit; the eighties sucked ass; he barely remembered the nineties; and everything after 2000 was lost in a haze of self-loathing.
Things were looking up.