Man, it was a good thing vampires didn't get cancer. Lately he'd been chain-smoking like a felon.

Falling into ruin was a bit like falling in love: Both descents stripped you bare and left you as you were at your core. And both endings are equally painful.

V had a passing thought that she used the word "anyway" like an eraser on a crowded chalkboard. She said it whenever she needed to clear off the things she'd just shared to make room for more.

But then, gifts are like beauty, are they not. It is in the eye of the recipient that they find their seat, not in the hand of the giver.

An active mind didn't need distractions in its physical environment. It needed a collection of outstanding books and a good lamp. Maybe some cheese and crackers.

A book unopened alters not the ink on its pages. What is there is there.

Okay, well...how's that water feeling, then?' 'Excuse me?' 'The Nile warm this time of the year?

hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic...

A rational man is guided by his thinking - by a process of Reason - not by his feelings and desires.

I was a pitcher, shortstop and outfielder, and the Yankees tried to sign me out of high school as a first-round draft pick in 1981. I turned them down to go to college.

Ineluctable modality of the visible; at least that if no more, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read.

It's not the pizza, darlin', its my masculine presence." Joe Morelli

I have a few goals that I kind of keep to myself.

I didn't write poems for a number of years after graduate school because the criticisms of other students in the workshops wouldn't quiet down in my mind when I tried to work.

He knew she was there by the joy and terror that took possession of his heart [...] Everything was lit up by her. She was the smile that brightened everything around.

Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.

For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so good and evil in the end become confounded.