Saturday, 25 June 2011
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The bigger problem I’ve had in life is not lack of attachments but being free of them.
Sunday, 29 May 2011
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Between the crazies and the gods are many ordinary idealists who contemplate better possibilities.
Friday, 26 November 2010
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Painters who decorate and singers who teach are paid more than studio guys.
Sunday, 25 April 2010
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The people I worked with went for beaten tracks that had more of the downhill about them.
Monday, 5 October 2009
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I don't care who artists are or what they say any longer.
Thursday, 2nd July 2009
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I would say that I'm porous thick as opposed to opaque thick.
Wednesday, 10 June 2009
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Having an idea was one thing, applying it was another.
Wednesday, 27 May 2009
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Mental health is less about what happens to you and more about what you feel about what happens to you.
Friday, 22 May 2009
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There was something quite natural to me that I should bump into McCartney.
Monday, 9 February 2009
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Most folks I know, even those close, don't care much about me outside of their own narrow concerns.
Saturday, 10 January 2009
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My kind of intimacy is at odds with exclusivity.
Tuesday, 30 December 2008
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I am still given to being catapulted into a rapture.
Wednesday, 12 November 2008
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Perhaps another world would have better suited my father, a world marching to a different drum from the one sounding during his living years.
Saturday, 26 July 2008
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Holiday islands, teenage romance, school-mates, music and the making of it are all part of my spiritual history.
Tuesday, 15 July 2008
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The youthful heart is a fickle thing and mine was more fickle than most.
Monday, 7 July 2008
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I didn't like my grandfather much and was already on the way to disliking my father.
Saturday, 26 January 2008
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Throughout adult life I would rise and fall on a regular basis.
Saturday, 26 January 2008
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Others took what they were offered but I tried to do my own thing.
Sunday, 14 October 2007
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Walking down the Royal Mile it is the ghosts of Adam Smith and David Hume and Robert Burns I feel.
Thursday, 28 September 2006
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Differences are fine but they need to be differences within a bigger picture of shared endeavour and common interest.
Friday, 7 July 2006
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The problems of chasing sex without commitment would constantly throw up all sorts of other issues.
Thursday, 13 April 2006
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There are few suitable social groups which encompass my set of values.
Wednesday, 22 March 2006
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I imagine the average citizen from Massachusetts to be a more confident specimen and more open to possibility.
Wednesday, 8 February 2006
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I like to be able to stay clear of the situations and people I dislike.
Monday, 19 December 2005
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I am unsuited to the world in general because my world in particular is unsuited to me.
Monday, 14 November 2005
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Reflecting on the relationships I've had I am rather soured.
Sunday, 30 October 2005
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Without some kind of raised expectation few things that really matter in life can be achieved.
Monday, 23 May 2005
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A free spirit: In my more romantic notions about myself I like to think that is what I am.
Wednesday, 18 May 2005
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It is the stuff that endures that is invariably of high value.
Tuesday, 29 March 2005
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Seeing my mother as the one with the broader shoulders maintained as I began to understand the more complicated strengths of women generally.
Saturday, 26 February 2005
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This is the love of lust, of sex, of the objectification of women, of personal gratification and defilement.
Thursday, 20 January 2005
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I would like to think a woman’s generosity of spirit could rise to the occasion and deal with me in the trough as well as the peak.
Tuesday, 28 December 2004
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In outlook I seem to have gone from being predominantly a positive person to the opposite.
Friday, 22 October 2004
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I have an absolute true-north alongside an almost sacred commitment to it.
Monday, 16 August 2004
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I dislike people who define themselves and are defined by their class.
Friday, 30 July 2004
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For much of my life, being part of some elite or other was invariably the story.
Sunday, 8 August 2004
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Some thoughts on fear presiding.
Wednesday, 28 July 2004
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I have spent too much time on the zero mark.
Friday, 23 July 2004
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They are the precious times for many, the coming-of-age years, when characters are formed and futures determined.
Friday, 16 July 2004
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My parents fought the same fights for fifty years, over and over.
Thursday, 15 July 2004
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A diary full of events has never been hard for me to achieve.
Thursday, 8 July 2004
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There is no such thing as social life devoid of an act.
Sunday, 13 June 2004
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There were no “zipless fucks”.
Sunday, 6 June 2004
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I could happily live my life in an intimate state.
Wednesday, 2 June 2004
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A fabulous year, memories to treasure, good times to cherish.
Thursday, 27 May 2004
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I’m seldom able to feel completely in the moment at any time short of the big event being in play.
Thursday, 20 May 2004
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For most people I have no trust.
Wednesday, 12 May 2004
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These days I don’t incline to putting any effort into anything when there is not a prevailing wind.
Saturday, 8 May 2004
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I’m not so bothered about money but completely interested in who, how, or what determines it.
Friday, 16 April 2004
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I need to have some kind of admiration for what a person stands for.
Friday, 9 April 2004
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The weakness is the strength, the strength is the weakness.
Thursday, 8 April 2004
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I need for extenuating circumstances to be other than ordinary.
Friday, 12 September 2003
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I do like to know that I could win if I wanted to.
Tuesday, 9 September 2003
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There should be a reasonable symmetry between inner and outer lives.
Thursday, 17 July 2003
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Depression is the antithesis of faith and belief.
Saturday, 12 July 2003
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It’s probably fair to say that for the most part I have been treated quite kindly by people.
Tuesday, 17 June 2003
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Chances for success and me to be hanging out are not high.
Saturday, 7 June 2003
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Attractiveness in oneself is not an easy subject to broach.
Saturday, 22 March 2003
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I am mere hack, high on form, low on integrity.
Tuesday, 18 March 2003
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I can often get a hold on where someone is at but the reverse is rarely true.
Monday, 24 February 2003
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I would hanker for moments when I didn’t have to be somewhere to fulfil some commitment or other and could be alone to think.
Saturday, 15 February 2003
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Nobody I know has anything I need.
Thursday, 2 January 2003
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I seem to need an ideological context within which to work effectively.
Tuesday, 17 December 2002
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When I’ve been successful I’ve not really known why the thing is working.
Saturday, 7 December 2002
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As a teenagerI had attitudes that had a prescience about them.
Saturday, 22 June 2002
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I used to feel fated, that I had a destiny to perform some task.
Tuesday, 4 June 2002
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Music offered the elements that became essential to my existence, the defining aspect.
Monday, 31 December 2001
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A list of related personal issues.
Monday, 31 December 2001
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A list of culture likes.
Sunday, 30 December 2001
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A list of favoured icons.
Sunday, 11 November 2001
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Personal hates, all of them people related.
Tuesday, 11 April 2000
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I don’t see why an opera is any better necessarily than a rock tune.
Monday, 28 February 2000
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I've been many people.
Friday, 24 February 1995
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Did I imagine in this place something wholly missing from my own country?
