Like a firework, a person’s life flashed brightest right before expiration.

Everyone’s searching for someone to end the pain of loneliness. Even the darkest of souls wants a shot at redemption.

Once upon a time, he might’ve chased her and tumbled her in the sheets with the promise of more in the future.

Ice upon ice, and yet, inside, she melted and mourned all the same.

She would never forget how his soul was lonely as the moon they’d met under, and how, for several brief moments, she’d been able to chase the loneliness away.

Truth be told, loneliness had seeped into her bones with the passing of time until it had become her normal way of life.

No monster would hold the hurt I see in your eyes or carry the guilt you do every day.

The shadows along the streets were personal, and, every passing day, they seemed to grow longer and hungrier

The water glittered under the moon’s careful watch, and, in the distance, steeples cut stark black silhouettes into the landscape of the distant city.

While the club-kid lifestyle might’ve once appealed to him, after he discovered even drugs wouldn’t dull his sharpened reality, he went into each round cold.

Embrace the sweetness of life like a gift honeycomb from the hive.

Grief is a good thing. It's the way we get through the transitions of life.

Lincoln admitted his infirmities to make way for his spring.

If I could work with any actor it would have to be Johnny Depp. He is cool.

It never hurts for potential opponents to think you're more than a little stupid and can hardly count all the money in your hip pocket, much less hold on to it.

You rarely hear anyone use the word pancreas in a not-horrible context.

I enjoyed debate on the floor but it's not really debate in the same way.

I did the thing with bonds, which was about 30 million dollars, and didn't get none of the money on them.

You can do it if you believe you can.

I work hard, but in spurts.