Just because you fall down doesnt mean your hurt in the process yet mabey you found your lost ear ring

It is not the importance of the thing, but the majesty of the Lawgiver, that is to be the standard of obedience.~Andrew Bonar~

To kill for fun is the job of the psychopaths! And what is a matador, apart from being a mentally ill person?

I like when a poem ends on its "receipts," meaning it gives me something tactile or tangible to dwell on as I exit the reading experience. So I strive to end my own poems that way as well.

Ideals we do not make. We discover, not invent, them.

No article of faith is proof against the disintegrating effects of increasing information; one might almost describe the acquirement of knowledge as a process of disillusion.

Secret to what?" "Secret to shutting you up," he said. "I just have to beat you till you're half-dead, then give you chicken soup and"--he raised his hands--"blessed silence.

I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.

I enjoy creating and developing characters, as well as situations. But I have always had more ideas than I can ever put down on paper and fantasy allows me to include a lot of what I feel.

Focus on a specific intention... A goal is often fueled by fear... An intention is fueled by a sense of purpose.

Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;When thou art old there's grief enough for thee.