On my first visit to the public library, I was like a kid at a candy store where all the candy was free. I gorged myself until my tummy ached.

You're more than a story.

Sometimes, upon waking, the residual dream can be more appealing that reality, and one is reluctant to give it up. For a while, you feel like a ghost -- Not fully materialized, and unable to manipulate your surroundings. Or else, it is the dream that haunts you. You wait with the promise of the next dream.

I was grateful for cereal --- the only food that my tummy, riddled by pangs of infatuation, could handle.

Something about being rejected at Church Camp felt so much more awful than being rejected at school.

Edward Said talks about Orientalism in very negative terms because it reflects the prejudices of the west towards the exotic east. But I was also having fun thinking of Orientalism as a genre like Cowboys and Indians is a genre – they’re not an accurate representation of the American west, they’re like a fairy tale genre.

and yet I feel that the most real home I'll ever have is the space where our roads merged and traveled along together... for a time.

You have so many layers, that you can peel away a few, and everyone's so shocked or impressed that you're baring your soul, while to you it's nothing, because you know you've twenty more layers to go.

The question is not, could Utah compete week in and week out in the ACC, SEC, Big Ten, whatever, .. The question is, in a one- game setting, can Utah compete, can Utah get the market share, sell the tickets of one of those more familiar institutions. Nobody knows that answer.

I love the sea because it is boundless.

Which is scarier-- lust or temptation?

I wanted a heaven. And I grew up striving for that world-- an eternal world- that would wash away my temporary misery.

Pressed against her I can hear eternity -- hollow, lonely spaces and currents that churn ceaselessly, and the fallen snow welcomes the falling snow with a whispered Hush.