I took my menial life for granted until it became clear, why my early years resulted in a lack of adoption.- J.D. Stroube (Rival: Prelude to the Mirage Chronicles.)

If the town were a black hole, I was the helpless star being sucked into oblivion. It was an oblivion I craved.

No one has free will until they are an adult, and by then the choices that were made for them, have already set them on a course that gives limited freedom in the choices to be made.

Mmmm… stay.” Her voice was barely audible, as she grazed her lips against mine and her head fell back against the pillow into a deep sleep.

I could see her will leaving and death seeping through her skin to skewer her soul.

The walls that caged me were not of this world, but were within my mind.

The melodious song mesmerized me and cloaked my soul in a most liberating embrace I had never known. The emotion enveloped me, and smothered the emptiness.

These were people who hunted for a way to erase the haunted, malnourished gaze from their souls and replace it with their faith in freedom and safety.

In that smooth fortress of glass, I caught a glimpse of my corruption gripping steel, which before I had thought of as my salvation, but now represented my obliteration.

It is easy to hate but divine to love.

You only live once. Trying to do the right thing for other people often doesnt work out, and you have to follow your own path in order to make things work out best for everyone.

I ended up getting a lion chain. I had to make my own mascot - I want to start my own dynasty eventually.

I'm sixty-eight, I cry every chance I can.

I have no TV, thank God. I haven't heard anything about Tom Cruise, except that he had a baby, I think.

I'm very proud to know the Koch brothers. This may be a breaking news announcement for the media: I am the Koch brothers' brother from another mother.

But I think that sensitivity is also a good counsellor when it comes to enforcing one's interests.

The size of a studio film lets you see technology in a way that you wouldn't on an independent film, like the gadgets and the angles and all that.

I learn something all the time - rearranging what I thought I knew before.

good morning sinners. vampiric red bull intake in pub smoking compound commenced. day of heavy brain-fingering ahead.