(Info on how to reach me at the end.)


I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I
discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them
again. I woke at intervals until ... the intervals of waking tipped the
scales, and I was more often awake than not. I noticed this process of
waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not
far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back and never be
free of myself again.                                   --Annie Dillard


Ishmael said, ``We know what happens if you take the Taker premise, that
the world belongs to man.'' / ``Yes, that's a disaster.'' / ``And what
happens if you take the Leaver premise, that man belongs to the world?''
/ ``Then creation goes on forever.'' / ``How does that sound?'' /
``It has my vote.''                                     --Daniel Quinn


in the blackness of the pine
in the paleness of the moon ...
you offer me arms to take up
you offer me arms to wake up in
and we'll put pain away
sing the heavens to sleep
ah, let's not talk now                                  --Jane Siberry


I'm not one of your funny little squiggles with a plus or minus sign,
or an equal sign before or after me. Or, God forbid,
x times the square root of minus one
anywhere in my equation.                                --Kate Wilhelm


The world pours in and overflows the heart
until speech is useless ...                             --Kim Stanley Robinson


If you see a man who's broken
pick him up and carry him
If you see a woman who's broken
pull her all into your arms
Cause we don't know where we come from
We don't know what we are                               --Laurie Anderson


I just don't care what happens next
It looks like freedom but it feels like death
It's something in between, I guess
It's closing time.                                      --Leonard Cohen


It always comes down to just two choices.
Get busy living or get busy dying.                      --Stephen King



Live as if you were living for the second time
and had acted as wrongly the first time
as you are about to act now.                            --Victor Frankl


The best way to reach me is email: karl@cs.umb.edu.