top of page
.png){kind=small}
"I'm sure it's not all hot buttered crumpets out there in the breathing world of asphalt and heartbeats."
Standard
Customized
More
"The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped."
Author Name
Personal Development
"You cannot change reality by ignoring it."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I don't know why everyoneis still trying to find out whether heaven and hell exist.Why do we need more evidence?They exist here on this very Earth.Heaven is standing atop Mount Qasiounoverlooking the Damascene sightswith the wind carrying Qabbani'sdulcet words all around you.And hell is only four hours away in Aleppo where children's cries drown out the explosions of mortar bombsuntil they lose their voice,their families, and their limbs.Yes, hell certainly does existright now, at this moment,as I pen this poem. And all we're doingto extinguish this hellfireis sighing, shrugging, liking, and sharing.Tell me: what exactly does that makeus? Are we any better than the gatekeepers of hell?"
Author Name
Personal Development
"Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Even the world's greatest actor cannot fake an erection."
Author Name
Personal Development
"As soon as I sat down across from her, she ordered me to put the entire contents of my pants pockets on the table. I did as I was told, saying nothing. My reality seemed to have left me and was now wandering around nearby. I hope it can find me, I thought."
Author Name
Personal Development
"To live a lie may allow us to avoid the truth, but the real lie lays in believing that we can avoid the truth in the first place."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If you desire to be financially wealthy but don't know how to invest time, then you are just dreaming."
Author Name
Personal Development
"You're here, I continued. "At least you look as if you're here. But maybe you aren't. Maybe it's just your shadow. The real you may be someplace else. Or maybe you already disappeared, a long, long time ago. I reach out my hand to see, but you've hidden yourself behind a cloud of probablys."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"PDR: Persons of Dubious Reality; refugees from the collective consciousness. Uninvited visitors who have fallen through the grating that divides the real, from the written. They arrive with their actions hardwired due to their repetitious existence and the older and more basic they are, the more rigidly they stick to them. Characters from cautionary tales are particularly mindless; they do what they do because it's what they've always done.And it's our job to stop them."
Reality
"Now and again. Good residency is about having the power to ask someone to do something, but not necessarily exercising it."
Leadership
"Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable."
Mortality
"Prices of semicolons, plot devices, prologues and inciting incidents continued to fall yesterday, lopping twenty points off the TomJones Index."
Satire
"I'm beginning to think you're the sort of person who does a great deal with very little."He meant a liar."
Deception
"The very possibility of death focuses the mind wonderfully."
Mortality
"There is no point in expending good money on the pursuit of an engine that can power aircraft without propellers. What is wrong with airships anyway? They have borne mankind aloft for over a hundred relatively accident-free years and I see no reason to impugn their popularity..."
Innovation
"The known had been so long dwarfed by the unknown that confusion was an easy bedfellow."
Mystery
"All of everything came into existence simply because it wanted to be. The big bang wasn't so much a big bang as a hasty dash toward an opportunity to trade nothingness for somethingness. The main contributory factor to the entire universe was a momentary effect in need of a cause."
Creation
"I was in '78 recently," he announced. "I brought you this."He handed me a single by the Beatles. I didn't recognize the title."Didn't they split in '70?""Not always. How are things?"
Nostalgia
bottom of page