Liza took her time sipping her tea. “That’s what I hear Janet. Of course, living it up can take years off your life and add them to your face.

My heart, for unknown reasons, seems to freeze in motion in my chest. I can see he senses it and he holds his pause to enjoy my suffering, prolonging my ignorance. “Viktor, what?

How many times can a heart be shattered and still be pieced back together? How many times before the damage is irreparable?

Maybe love, unfathomable love, was too much for people, so they had traded it for something easier.

You can cower, ” she told them in a clear voice, wrapping her long shaking fingers around the cold iron bars. “But I will stand.

Tragic tales rarely do make sense.

If he looks at me like that again Dottie will need a bucket and mop to get me back to my room.

We ran on the fuel of youth and hormones and ignorant arrogance, imagining we had the whole world and the workings thereof figured out.

And you were always nothing but slime, Henry Wallace. Fancy trash

I can also speak to small woodland creatures, ” he grins at me.

My dear lady, you have no idea just how scandalous I can be. ~Peter Viktor von Strassenberg, 1905

If you stumble, you get back up. If you fall off the wagon, you have the next go at it. And then the next. And the next. And the next.

Consciously and unconsciously, intentionally and involuntarily, willfully and unsuspectingly, our beliefs are the sum total of our lives. It's that simple.

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.

My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting' to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done.

I don't know the right way to retire.

Women vibrate at a slightly different rate that passes kundalini very easily. It is problematic though, because a woman also picks up negative energy, it affects her more.

There's never any reason to trust someone. If there's a reason, then it's not trust. -Terence

Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others.

If the thumbnail version of the Iraq war was that Bush lied about WMD, the thumbnail version of Obama's war in Afghanistan is that the generals pushed him into a war he didn't want to fight.

Illegal immigrants have been a problem in America for hundreds of years...Just ask any Indian.