People have some really crazy ideas about love, friends and relationships. They have the absurd belief that their friends, children, family, lovers and companions can make them happy.

Sure. You want to be touched, inspired and made to feel alive. But a relationship is like a bridge where you meet other people half-way. That means if you want to be touched, inspired and made to feel alive, you have to be touching, inspiring and bring the fire of your aliveness to the union of your companionship.

Loneliness is really a wonderful companion that can show us so much about ourselves and others.

We pedaled rapidly, without laughing or speaking, peculiarly satisfied with our mutual presence, akin to one another in the common isolation of lewdness, weariness, and absurdity.

During intellectual droughts one shower of good ideas can cause a flash-flood to wash away the roads your habits travel.

Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.