If I am to be a skeleton in a box buried deep into the ground, I pray you will be the dust that rests atop my bones.

You know what’s worse than burying your own child? Not burying your own child.

Insanity is the only real escape from the banality of our lives. - Clara Bayliss

Person 1: "Stay back....I have a demon inside of me."Person 2: "Let me get closer...I have a hell inside me where your demons can live."(from Dark Winter, #2 - out Halloween 2014)

We're supposed to love flowers, yet we rip them from their homes, and give them to people who don't love us."-Toril Withers (Dark Winter).

You're a vampire?""Yes.""So what does that make me, your victim?""You're clearly not as dumb as you look.

A wise walker will set out early, keeping an open mind on how far to travel, allowing each day's adventure to evolve.

Kindness is the ability to love people more than they deserve.

When our souls are healthy, we change the environment; the environment doesn't change us.

You can't bury a part of yourself that's so innate to who you've been, even if it's not for the sake of anything other than a pure enjoyment of it.

Infidelity is seated in the heart; its origin is not in the head. It is the wish that Christianity might not be true, that leads to an argument to prove it.

Just because he was pretty didn't mean he couldn't be improved by a smack upside the head with a piece of earnest hickory

You could play probably a span of 50 years of me playing St. Louis Blues, and most of the time it will be different every time.

The only art form that Americans have created that's recognized around the world is jazz music born in a community that had the peculiar experience of being unfree in a free land.

If you jump to conclusions, you make terrible landings.

Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.