“Life is like licking Honey from a Thorn”

“Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns.”

“I Fall upon the thorns of life….”

“…an intellectual instinct which extracts the essence from the phenomena of life, as a bee sucks honey from a flower. In addition to study and reflections, life itself serves as a source.”

“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”

“Christ illustrates the purport of life as He descends from His transfiguration to toil, and goes forward to exchange that robe of heavenly brightness for the crown of thorns.”

“Tomorrow. The word hangs in the air for a moment, both a promise and a threat. Then it floats away like a paper boat, taken from her by the water licking at her ankles.”

“I'm old enough to make you look like an embryo. [Thorn]”

“Like God's own chocolate, I'd lick her shadow off a hot sidewalk”

“Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself.”