"Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that product is shareable with other people, so much the better."

-- Jane Rule

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“I was raised a good little Catholic. What's more theatrical than the ritual of the Catholic church?”

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“If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied.”
“When you're in a room with a guy who has a vision like that, it's just one of those things where you close your eyes and just see that vision - then you just go with it. The guys that I write with are so incredible, just like my producer Trent Willmon, those guys know how to bring things out of me - especially things that I maybe didn't even know that I had.”

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“Encouraging a child means that one or more of the following critical life messages are coming through, either by word or by action: I believe in you, I trust you, I know you can handle this, You are listened to, You are cared for, You are very important to me”
“You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right.”
“Whether you know it or not, we leave parts of ourselves wherever we go.”

Source : Simon Van Booy (2013). “The Illusion of Separateness”, p.68, Oneworld Publications
“I can't be gay! I'm a happily married conservative, just like Ted Haggard and Larry Craig.”
“Beauty kindles love, and only the one who remains captivated by it, only the one who is intoxicated by it, only the one who remains a lover while he is investigating its essence, can hope to penetrate its essence.”

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