Grateful to be a little boat, full of water, still floating.
What is the purpose of memory? Is it a trick to make sure we don't forget who we are by reminding us of who we were?
I suspected, however, that I wasn't homesick for anything I would find at home when I returned. The longing was for what I wouldn't find: the past and all the people and places there were lost to me.
A letter is always better than a phone call. People write things in letters they would never say in person. They permit themselves to write down feelings and observations using emotional syntax far more intimate and powerful than speech will allow.
It is one of the strongest bonds, I think, that can spring up between people: sharing a passion for certain books and their authors.
I suppose that, after the passion of love, water rights have caused more trouble than anything else to the human species.
The fun-seekers, I noted, were spontaneous and flexible. They approached each day and each situation with a willingness to ride whatever wave came along, just for the experience of it. The complainers, on the other hand, would only catch a wave if it was exactly to their liking. Anything else drew loud protestations about how it was not what they expected.
I think the first prerequisite to civilization is an ability to make polite conversation.
I still have very close ties to Houston and the Astros because that was my first team.
What I wanted was just to make music, and so, originally I just wanted to hide behind the album cover of the last record, and I wanted it to be almost anonymous.
I believe we came from nowhere. We show up, and we are now here. It's all the same. It just is a question of spacing.