Courage isn't something you can conjure, it's either in you or it's not.

She's pretty in a familiar kind of way that I forget to notice, until someone else notices and I'm reminded.

Jordan Mullen is looking at me like I'm something he wants to scrape off his shoe and right then my heart breaks, but somehow beats on.

And I wanted Jordan, because if he wanted me back it would mean I wasn't ordinary. A guy like him wouldn't settle for that.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

Never try to fit a target audience. Write what is true to the characters in their settings and the audience will find you.

Jumped In The Fo' Hit The Juice On Ma Ride I Got Front Back, And Side To Side

The media could do a much better job, that's for sure, especially the media that targets women... Human rights? They couldn't care less!

The genius thing that we did was, we didn't give up.

True peace can rarely be imposed from the outside; it must be born within and between communities through meetings and dialogue and then carried outward.

Sometimes, people forget my record of fiscal conservatism on major issues in the state legislature. The greatest example is my voting against the pension borrowing scheme in 1997.

Here is a thing which the more it is needed the more it is rejected: and this is advice, which is unwillingly heeded by those who most need it, that is to say, by the ignorant.

Science advances funeral by funeral

To Harry Secombe: I hope you die first as I don't want you singing at my funeral.