You Can't Test Courage Cautiously.

By Dipping Us Children In The Bible So Often, They Hoped, I Think, To Give Our Lives A Serious Tint, And To Provide Us With Quaintly Magnificent Snatches Of Prayer To Produce As Charms While, Say, Being Mugged For Our Cash Or Jewels.

Ecstasy, I Think, Is A Soul's Response To The Waves Holiness Makes As It Nears.

Anything You Do Not Give Freely And Abundantly Becomes Lost To You.

I Wake Up Thinking: What Am I Reading? What Will I Read Next? I'm Terrified That I'll Run Out, That I Will Read Through All I Want To, And Be Forced To Learn Wildflowers At Last, To Keep Awake.

Self-consciousness Is The Curse Of The City And All That Sophistication Implies.