I always tell the truth, Stella replies. Although I sometimes confuse the facts.

I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.

Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs.

When I'm drawing a picture, I feel...quiet inside.

Death's gruesome face taunts: soulless eyes, crimson grimace. I really hate clowns.

Growing up gorilla is just like any other kind of growing up. You make mistakes. You play. You learn. You do it all over again.

I think that in many ways, just as forgiveness is impossible without love, sometimes love requires forgiveness for it to work, too.

Her eyes hold the pale moon in them, the way a still pond holds stars.

Pain is life. Life is pain.

Old age is a powerful disguise.

Mosquitoes are the greatest mass murderers on planet Earth.

There is no one more capable of helping you than yourself.

I was a huge Della Reese fan, when Della Reese was on. I idolized all the panelists. I was in love with Kitty Carlisle. Nipsey Russell, Bill Cullen, Peggy Cass, Gene Rayburn.

The outer eyes see only by reflection. The vibrationsfrom the inner eye, optic, is conveyed along the opticnerves and produced, spectacular, on the ether.

Well, it was kind of accidental that Jim started playing with us, although it wasn't sudden... we hadn't really looked around to think who could be a fifth member.

To destroy is still the strongest instinct of our nature.

No Ideas original - there is nothing new under the sun.

Use your blog to connect. Use it as you. Don’t ‘network’ or ‘promote.’ Just talk.

I led a sheltered life. I didn't know how to book a flight.

Full of men, vacant of friends.

The charm about baseball is everyone has played it in some form. Everyone relates to it.