My Fairy-Tale Life, by Steven Boone

"It is better to be in chains with friends, than to be in a garden with strangers." 
-Persian Proverb My artist friend Ken Chri...

“An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.” ~Spanish Proverb The last several years I have been single and living alone, ...

Now that I am traveling again, the world speaks to me in new ways, and I listen. My parents have provided me a room, but it is barely large ...

“You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - a...

I have chosen to make the matrix of existence my true home, and flux my companion. For most people this is not possible or even desired. Whe...

Consciousness is a gift given to each human. We could never plan something so complex, nor, given our limitations, would we want to try. Loo...

My mother has begun entreating me not to travel in South America because of “murders”. But then, my mother has barely ventured past her back...

What is it like, to live in a DREAM? It is to realize ephemerality— the fleeting moments in eternity. Whatever it is that we think we know i...

Soon I will be homeless again. Don’t worry; it is by choice that I am putting my things away in my studio and giving up my home and car to b...

"Men have called me mad, but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence--whether much that...

I have never been comfortable with spies; people who secretly obtain information about other people in order to build intrigue against them....