Are you going to tell me what that was about?” Adam asked as we went back upstairs.“Sometime, ” I told him. “When we're telling ghost stories around a campfire, and I want to scare you.

Knowing someone desires you is the greatest aphrodisiac

My mother raised her eyebrow, and murmured, “And to think I was always worried that you didn’t have any friends. I suppose I should have been counting my blessings.

One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed.

I tried very hard not to ponder the horrible irony that I was too ugly to love, and too ugly not to violate.

Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts.

Quite clearly this is a human disaster of enormous proportions. We have tens and tens of thousands of displaced people across the United States,.

The housing market it at a record high that its never been at also.

The United States is not so strong, the final triumph of the democratic ideal is not so inevitable that we can ignore what the world thinks of us or our record.

Long ago they lowered insane persons into snake pits; they thought that an experience that might drive a sane person out of his wits might send an insane person back to sanity.

Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.

To me, the acceptable level of fecal matter is... zero.

For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard.

I realize that was becoming a contradiction in terms, especially after my friend Alison Krauss was shot and killed in Kent State in 1970 on campus by the National Guard.