“Funny how guilt sneaks into my lungs and tries to strangle me, just when I think I wrestled it into the past.”
― A Ship of Pearl
― A Ship of Pearl
“Yes. You see, it’s not 1 of those germs that break bleed suck gnaw or devour. It’s nothing we can bring into focus or categorize; once we call it 1 thing it forms into something else.”
― Mumbo Jumbo: A Novel
― Mumbo Jumbo: A Novel
“In a free market the people are free, the ideas are locked up.”
― The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
― The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
“Pull down its walls, see what’s truly on the other side of them.”
― The Fifth Doll
― The Fifth Doll
“Only when the increase of gifts moves with the gift may the accumulated wealth of our spirit continue to grow among us, so that each of us may enter, and be revived by, a vitality beyond his or her solitary powers.”
― The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
― The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
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