Mysteries, like the Masonic rites, are ones parents and elders are sworn not to reveal to the uninitiated, which include all children. And so we sought for signs.

Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew.

Everyone has a story. It is what defines us. Our stories continue to change as we evolve in-and-out of our own skin, changing and manipulating the world around us.

I respect you as my king, and I respect you as my father, but I do not respect you as a man!

Since my boyhood, I have sought always to please, but out of a kindness in me, never out of fear or respect for what was in others.

Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.