He set fire to some potatoes, then cooked some undelivered post in the embers." - Dad "Did he now? What a strange fellow. I would have done it the other way around." - Stafford

I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.

Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

Defiance through compliance.

Love is a wonderful thing, my dear, but it leaves you wide open for blackmail.

The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.

Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.

I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.

Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn"t what it used to be?

Do you ever feel like we are the universe’s date to a pig party? Love, The Human Race

Women are mysterious beings in which lie strange delights.

Typical Xochi, leaving out important, death-related details.

As if violence could make light. Maybe violence could make light.

Life has meaning only if you do what is meaningful to you.

I don't want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when they read.

Awards are like applause, and every actor likes to hear applause.

I don't eat meat, fish, or eggs. I was never a big meat-eater, but I've got more energy now.

So people only focus on getting the really deep sleep, but in reality, we spend almost 60% of the night in the stage two sleep.

If you live in Birmingham, then being awake is not necessarily a desirable state.