Lewis Carroll. He was an odd one. Real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Completely denied having anything to do with the Alice books. Daft as a brush. You'd have liked him!

Shit. Shit. Shit. He’d known he couldn’t save her. He’d known he was too far away. Knowing didn’t prevent the bare-knuckled punch to his heart, though.

Earnestness and sincereness are synonymous.

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

When people treat you like nothing, you begin to feel like nothing.

Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.

Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.

As the member of a firefighter family myself, supporting the widowed families of rescue workers is an important, personal cause of mine.

Mercy?” “Just a minute,” I told Adam. “I'm in the middle of a revelation.

We, as athletes, have our suspicions about who's cheating, but I'm not convinced that the testing has yet caught up with what people are using or what they are using to disguise it.

Nothing so diminishes democracy as secrecy.