Everyone danced -- sweaty bodies packed tight, drunk with sound.

Mutually assured destruction.

Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.

Every hero is the villain of his own story.

Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.

You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat.

Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.

Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.

Put your puppet on the throne." said Talathain. "You may make her Queen but she won’t be Queen for long.

There’s nothing like a gunshot to make you the life of the party.

If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.

God, don't they teach you how to spell these days?""No, " I answer. "They teach us to use spell-check.

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

Sometimes you successful folks can rise up so high reaching for more stuff that you miss knowing God. But you can never stoop low to help somebody and have God miss knowing you

The biggest happiness is when at the end of the year you feel better than at the beginning

Oftentimes an originator of new language forms is called 'pretentious' by jealous talents. But it ain’t whatcha write, it’s the way atcha write it.

It's necessary in order to attract attention, to dazzle at all costs, to be disapproved of by serious people and quoted by the foolish.

When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.

I've done some stupid things. You just have to take responsibility, go, That was embarrassing, and move forward as best you can.

Becoming less focused on the past and future and not resisting the moment is how to overcome fear, physical pain, and all suffering.

The better to eat you with, my dear.