I have never tried to walk through a mall in the Christmas season dressed like a jolly old elf. You might as well dress up like a pork chop and walk into an alley full of starving dogs.

The body tries to stop the mind from killing itself, no matter the cost. It is only the lack of strength, the fatigue that lets the jumpers fall at last.

Things had improved after he was born. We both loved him with such fervor that it was impossible that some wouldn’t splash back on us.

I’m a holiday Christian at best and I’d never given much thought to demons. They were an adult version of the boogieman hiding in every kid’s closet.

Love, JamieP.S. I can't believe you're dying. Please don't die.

We live in a time where it's more surprising if people are actually together than if they're having affairs.

He that marries late, marries ill.

A black man, but I feel so blue. So I smoke green and purple to my dreams come true. And my eyes turn red, the sky turns grey.

Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do so, you'll put a touch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces.

That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.

She's a good girl, crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend, too.

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

The Moon, the dried weeds and the Pleiades - Seven feet tall the dark, dried weed stalks make a part of the night a red lace on the milky blue sky

Ay, is it not a language I speak?